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Folkert Rienstra
Rod Speed said:
No need, Grampy.
LOL. Doesn't your post just prove that I did, Roddy. Eh?
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No need, Grampy.
LOL. Doesn't your post just prove that I did, Roddy. Eh?
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chrisv
jim evans said:A few years ago the conventional wisdom was you could (should?) not do
a low level format on a drive -- that it must be done by the
manufacturer.
Now I read for a number of situations you should use Maxtor's PowerMax
utility to do a low level format, and it will not harm the drive.
Can someone clarify this conflicting advice?
jim
Idiot. Ever hear of a google search? You think you're the first
person to ask this question?
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Arno Wagner
It wasn't. Because, like I said elsewhere, Low Level Formatting has nothing
to do with servo track writing. All it does is divide a track up into
sectors.
The tracks themselfs are written by the servo track writer and consist of
little more than servo marks.
It gets a little fuzzy here. Some people actually call writing the
servo marks a low-level format. Others do not. The thing is that
servo-marks are all over the disk and constrain where you can put
data. In fact they define where you can put data, since you have them
between each pair of consecutive data sectors.
Arno
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Eric Gisin
Nope, nobody with a clue calls servo writing low-level formatting.
Twenty years ago all high-end disks had a servo surface created at the factory
and the controller could not write to it. Formatting a new disk was standard
practice back then.
Today servo writing is still done before formatting, on a special machine.
Twenty years ago all high-end disks had a servo surface created at the factory
and the controller could not write to it. Formatting a new disk was standard
practice back then.
Today servo writing is still done before formatting, on a special machine.
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Rod Speed
Some pathetic excuse for a troll claiming to be
in message just the puerile shit any 3 year old could leave for dead.
Try harder, trollchild. You might actually
manage to wow someone, sometime.
in message just the puerile shit any 3 year old could leave for dead.
Try harder, trollchild. You might actually
manage to wow someone, sometime.
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Folkert Rienstra
Arno Wagner said:It gets a little fuzzy here.
Nope.
Some people actually call writing the servo marks a low-level format.
Only those without a clue.
Others do not.
Those that have a clue.
The thing is that servo-marks are all over the disk
Duh.
and constrain where you can put data.
Duh. Obviously, as that is their sole purpose, to de-
fine where/what the track is and what track it is.
In fact they define where you can put data, since you
have them between each pair of consecutive data sectors.
Nonsense. You confuse the sector IDs with the servo marks.
There are only so many servo marks to keep the heads
successfully on track and keep the spindle speed constant.
Servo marks can actually be in the middle of a data sector.
Current drives don't have Sector IDs anymore. Sector
IDs are now an offset number in a table in drive RAM.
The Servo field locations are recorded in there as well.
Low Level Formatting is now merely a re-formatting the num-
bers in RAM and re-initializing the corresponding data areas.
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/ipl/oem/tech/noid.htm