> Well, close to no time. It will still re-initialize the disk. And > if you've selected a different partitioning scheme or changed from > HFS to HFS+ (or HFS+ to HFS), it will take a few seconds. But it > won't take anything like the several minutes to hours it can take to > write zeros to a several gigabyte disk and/or do an LLF to a SCSI > disk. > > Peace, > Drew
So why is that not true then? When LLFing an ATA (or any other) drive, it can take anywhere from 20min to an hour or more. If it is doing nothing at all, then why does it take so long? It seems stupid if it is writing zero's, because it does that in the next step, when it says "Writing Zero's" I just don't understand why, if it is bad/pointless/impossible to LLF an ATA drive, it is possible to select it, and (aside from this list) not generally known to damage the drive. If apple knows all this, why is drive setup (capable of LLF) still included with new Macs, even though they all use ATA drives? If a customer puts a SCSI disk in a new Mac, then it is via a 3rd party driver, which presumably can format it's own disk anyway. Like you, Drew, I don't particularly want to drag this argument out any further, but it all sounds very old-wives-tale-ish to me... :-) -- John -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
