| From: | Dr Greg Perry |
| Date: | 31 Aug 2001 at 02:21:30 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: Opus' Format replacement |
On 31-Aug-01 00:46:49 Jacob Laursen wrote:
>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?
Just call the AmigaDos format. :)
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