Franklin wrote:

>--- Mike O'Connor  wrote:
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>


>>Disks - either IDE or SCSI aren't user-low-level-formattable. 
>>Because of zone-bit recording this is a factory-only option. the SCSI-LLF
>>from the HBA-BIOS is only a long "refresh" of the media.
>>    
>>
>I think what we now call low level formatting is using the
>manufacturer's diagnostic software that will write zeros to the drive
>linearly, destroying all data and partitioning structures so that the
>drive is completely blank and ready to be partitioned again.
>  
>

Hi Franklin,

Correct, though writing as zeroes is probably only the final step after 
writing/reading multiple patterns to each bit of the data and control 
areas of each sector.

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Regards,
Mike

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