On Mar 20, 2009, at 7:12 PM, Charles Davis wrote:
> > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Dan wrote: > >> >> That's re-initializing a drive. You cannot reformat modern drives. >> >> The process of zeroing it -- writing zeros to each sector on the >> drive causes the hardware's bad block replacement mechanism to >> trigger as needed. >> > What isn't being said here, is whether the 'bad block' mechanism is > operational when zeroing at the partition level, or only when the > complete hard disk is being 'zeroed'. Good point. I've always assumed partitions were being treated like a separate volume, and was being re-mapped. Gurus? Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
