| From: | Dr Greg Perry |
| Date: | 30 Aug 2001 at 13:30:02 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: Opus' Format replacement |
On 30-Aug-01 19:18:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>Steve & Ulli Bowman said,
>> G'day Neil Bothwick,
>>> 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?
>Because hard drives don't have the sectors marked on the disk during
>formatting like floppy disks do, so a full format is not necessary.
>> AFAIK fast format will only work once the drive
>> had been fully formatted.
>I've done it many times over the years, with new drives and with new Zip
>disks. The 18GB drive I'm using now has only been quick formatted.
In fact with modern drives you cannot actually do a real low level format.
The drive mechanics handle all this.
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