"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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>
> On my drives, at least one of the maxtor "format back to factory-fresh"
> only wrote the first sector on each track or something. It finished way
> too fast to be writing the whole drive. Unless the drive had a command
> built in that wiped the entire track in one rotation or something,
> rather than actually having to transfer the data from memory to the
> drive for the whole thing.
>

One the subject of format, what does Low-level format actually do? I
remember years ago disks had to be low level formatted by the user. Now a
low level format will render a drive useless (or so documentation says)

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