> But that's effective in performing a
low-level
> format, no? Of this I'm pretty sure. If it's an oldie
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Alexandre Souza wrote:
"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
Speedstor was fairly good for low level formatting.
Watch out, though. There was a short period of time in which Steve
Gibson? made the defaults include restoring to use sectors that had been
marked bad, but that successfully formatted! That negated the
manufacturers' tests that had marked some sectors as being untrustworthy.
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