| From: | Gordon Moss |
| Date: | 25 Oct 2000 at 19:34:44 |
| Subject: | Re: [(Dodgy) 2.5in. HDDs' |
>no no no no, don't low level format IDE drives. You only do that on
>SCSI drives, at best ide drives ignore a low level format, at worst
>(so i've heard) they can be damaged.
Hi Andrew,
I know some people disagree with low level formatting 2.5" IDE drives, but
it has been my experience when a 2.5" drive has been fixed and formatted for
use with PC`s, and they will be used on an Amiga, that sometimes the Amiga
won`t recognise the drive. So for the drive to be recognised by the Amiga it
becomes necessary for the previous formatting to be removed, this will be
done by low level formatting.
Yours more helpfully,
[Flash]
gomoss@lineone.net
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