| From: | Jacob Laursen |
| Date: | 30 Aug 2001 at 14:46:49 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: Opus' Format replacement |
On 30-Aug-01, Dr Greg Perry wrote:
>>>> 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.
[...]
> In fact with modern drives you cannot actually do a real low level
> format. The drive mechanics handle all this.
Don't confuse people by dragging a third (and obsolete) way of formatting
into the discussion. ;-)
Btw, any chance to get the source code for the format.module?