Vincent wrote:
My 2.4 gig IDE took less than 2 seconds. I't really fast. If it's not done in 10 seconds it's not doing it right.
Are you talking about lowlevel formatting?
A real LLF takes several hours, but IDE drives just ignore the command, that's why it takes "less than 2 seconds" - the drive doesn't do it at all.
Most SCSI drives don't do it either any more.
Rule of thumb: don't lowlevelformat your disks, if they accept the command and something goes wrong, you might lose the disk.
