Thats always been my policy, as well. I had to format myself to find out if it works. I initialize the hard drive on my iBook about twice a year. I just love that "zippy" new computer feel after a good scrubbing.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > At 12:00 AM -0600 1/5/2010, David Colvin wrote: > >> I have a quick question. I'm selling a Lacie Tsunami 100 mg external HD. I >> formatted it using Lido 7 on my Classic. It's spinning like a top and seems >> to work great. A prospective buyer has a question that I can't honestly >> answer. Here's the question: >> >> "With the formatting you've done, do you think your external HD would work >> with a Mac IIsi running OS 6.0.8?" >> >> I wouldn't know why it shouldn't work fine but I've never owned a Mac II. >> What should I tell him? >> > > It will probably work. But it's moot! Upon receiving a new HD thru the > mail, after letting it acclimate for a few hours or overnight (especially in > this cold weather!), his first task should be to reformat[*] it! No telling > what horrible things happened to that package in transit... > > [*] Old SCSI drives, you re-format. Newer IDE/SATA drives, you > re-initialize and zero all blocks. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected]<vintage-macs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ >
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