On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:47:39 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:
> IIRC, the necessity of low level formating was because of the positioning
> motor on the HD's reading arm. With MFM and RLL drives, after a while the
> arm would not align with the cylinders and a low level format had to be done
> to realign
IIRC, the necessity of low level formating was because of the positioning
motor on the HD's reading arm. With MFM and RLL drives, after a while the
arm would not align with the cylinders and a low level format had to be done
to realign the cylinders with the read head.
With the advent of stepp
Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:
I did a low level format on a HD and it is unusable ever since :-(
You might want to try and run another "low level format" on it - using
utility software you can download probably from HD manufacturer.
As Michal stated and you noticed the hard way, "old fashio
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:23:37 +0200, Michal H. Tyc wrote:
> Hello Kali, hello Glenn,
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:24:59 +0900, Kali Mclaughlin wrote:
>> I am completely confused about formatting and fdisking. There is a "low
>> level format" thing as well that my Pentium wont do, but the good old
>>
Hello Kali, hello Glenn,
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:24:59 +0900, Kali Mclaughlin wrote:
> I am completely confused about formatting and fdisking. There is a "low
> level format" thing as well that my Pentium wont do, but the good old
> 386 will.
Low-level formatting means putting track and sector ad
Hi Kali,
Maybe this will help ... I think it's close to being accurate. Perhaps
one of the true techies on the list will add the necessary corrections.
However, this is how things were explained to me.
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The "low level format thing" you described probably refers to the
interface between the sy
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:24:59 +0900, Kali Mclaughlin wrote:
> Dear List:
> I am completely confused about formatting and fdisking. There is a "low
> level format" thing as well that my Pentium wont do, but the good old
> 386 will.
> I am told that to clean up a HDD you run fdisk, and then format.co
Dear List:
I am completely confused about formatting and fdisking. There is a "low
level format" thing as well that my Pentium wont do, but the good old
386 will.
I am told that to clean up a HDD you run fdisk, and then format.com with
switches for HDD rather than floppy. It seems to be different w
