| From: | Steve & Ulli Bowman |
| Date: | 30 Aug 2001 at 09:19:15 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: Opus' Format replacement |
G'day Neil Bothwick,
On 30-Aug-01, on the subject of "Re: [D5] Re: Opus' Format replacement",
you spoke thus:
> Steve & Ulli Bowman said,
>
>>> Does not the normal DOpus Format option work when supplied with the
>>> QUICK option, (ala the normal procedure for a HD >4GB) ?
>
>> I would say not to a new, unformatted (AmigaDOS) HD.
>
> Quick formatting works fine on new large drives. There's never any need
> for a full format. The only advantage of using it is that it /may/ pick
> up some bad blocks, although it's never done so for me.
>
I never did try it, but a new HD is not AmigaDOS formatted. So how can
AmigaDOS work with it? AFAIK fast format will only work once the drive
had been fully formatted.
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