Bitter, Rijk [NCSNL] wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> low-level format is an 'old school' tool.
> It is not necessary for modern harddisks anymore and can even damage
> your modern disks.
> I would stick with a normal bootdisk, using fdisk, gdisk, (linux) disk druid,
> whatever.
>
Harddrive vendors do have low-level format utilities, though. It should
be emphasized that these are *vendor and model specific* and must not be
used for other vendors' hard drives (generally it will simply refuse to
work with a drive it doesn't recognize.)
-hpa
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> Hi Tim,
>
> low-level format is an 'old school' tool.
> It is not necessary for modern harddisks anymore and can even damage
> your modern disks.
> I would stick with a normal bootdisk, using fdisk, gdisk, (linux) disk druid,
> whatever.
>
Harddrive vendors do have low-level format utilities, though. It should
be emphasized that these are *vendor and model specific* and must not be
used for other vendors' hard drives (generally it will simply refuse to
work with a drive it doesn't recognize.)
-hpa
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