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Low Level Format

Daff

# 1
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 243 from 2003/4/5

How to low lovel format a hard drive under MorphOS 2.x ?

(there is an option on MorphOS 1.x with SCSIConfig, but I havn't found anything with MorphOS 2.x)
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»17.10.10 - 06:43

Tcheko

# 2
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 530 from 2003/2/25

From: France

Hi Daff,

Modern drive don't support low level format (which comes from MFM drives) afaik.

Here is some more information on the subject.

http://freepctech.com/pc/001/007.shtml

You mean formating the whole drive?
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»17.10.10 - 07:47

Daff

# 3
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 243 from 2003/4/5

Hello Tcheko,

Yes, formating the whole drive (but it's not my intention, I would only know if this option is possible with MorphOS 2.0).
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»17.10.10 - 15:44

RSchmidt

# 4
MorphOS Developer

Posts: 12 from 2006/10/30

The scsi lowlevel format isn't available anymore as it's not supported by the scsi/ide emulation. If somebody has problems with his ide drive I would suggest using the pc tools of the vendor to check them.
»17.10.10 - 16:28