> On 31 Dec, 2016, at 08:20, 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs
> wrote:
>
> I suspect the reason it quit working was because drive manufacturers "fixed"
> whatever method that BIOS was using to access the drives' built in low level
> formatting system.
In fact, it’s because modern drives req
On 12/31/16 6:57 AM, Jonathan Morton wrote:
On 31 Dec, 2016, at 08:20, 'Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs
wrote:
I suspect the reason it quit working was because drive manufacturers "fixed"
whatever method that BIOS was using to access the drives' built in low level formatting
system.
In
On 12/28/16 8:53 PM, John-Robert La Porta wrote:
Now I am having even more problems with my LC 520. First off, I thought
that my internal HD was going. When the machine would start up, the
John,
I'll go out to my storeroom and see if I have any LC 520 hd pulls here.
if not I'll check storage l
> On 1 Jan, 2017, at 05:01, Charles Lenington wrote:
>
> Didn't "Hard disk tool kit" and LaCie's "silver lining" (?) low level
> format? I think there were a couple more.
These days the nearest equivalent to “low level format” available solely by
software is “secure erase”. It’s entirely p
