On Monday 04 February 2002 07:36 am, you wrote: > Hi, > > It's generally not a good idea to use the low level formatting feature of > some system board bioses. You might lose the factory skew settings put on > your disk at the factory when they did the factory low level format. The > system board bioses I have seen do not call the proprietary factory format > routines on the hard disk; at least not the ones that I have seen. And > I've seen a few. > > Sesame Galeo recommended a debug routine. If that works, it's the best > way, because that command sequence is routing you to the hard drive's > formatting routine in it's firmware.
I don't think debug will work with the IDE or ATAPI drives, will it? As far as I remember, the format stuff for debug was designed for MFM and RLL drives usually found in 286 or older systems.. I could be way off base here as I haven't used that command for nearly 8 years <G>.... The absolute best way is to use the utility from the mfgr because it is designed to work with the proper size and series of drive you have. > If however your drive does not respond with that, you really should get a > low level factory format program from the manufacturer. That way you won't > mess your drive up. > > On Sunday 03 February 2002 19:21, you wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and I think it may be > > in need of a low-level format. Is there a utility that anyone could > > suggest that would help me accomplish this and bring the disk back from > > the brink? > > > > thanks, > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936
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