1 Jun
2007
1 Jun
'07
8:15 a.m.
Alexandre Souza wrote:
The owner's manual for the WDXT150 mentions "installing the software
for the adapter", but nothing more specific than that. Mostly I want to
know "how do I specify CHS geometry?"
Oh, and can I use a CF adapter....
Doc
But that's
effective in performing a low-level
format, no? Of this I'm pretty sure. If it's an oldie
(apparently) then fine. But with *newer* drives, and I
don't know how new, you'll lose skew rates or whatever
if you perform a ll format. You won't damage the
drive, as is often said, but you'll lose some
efficiency I guess.
"Moroless". I remember some WD and Seagate controllers had more than
just a low level formatter. I'm quite sure (although I don't see that in
more than 10 years) that some seagate cards had a big menu with options
like changing interleave, finding best interleave, low level format,
surface test et al. Maybe I'm mistaken, who knows? :oP