| From: | Dr Greg Perry |
| Date: | 31 Aug 2001 at 02:20:52 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: Opus' Format replacement |
On 31-Aug-01 00:40:14 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>On Thursday 30 August 2001 2:30 pm, Dr Greg Perry wrote:
>> On 30-Aug-01 19:18:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> >Steve & Ulli Bowman said,
>> >> 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.
>Now you're trying to confuse everyone by adding low-lewel formatting into the
> discussion :)
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