Alan Cox wrote:
I can remember people killing the early IDE drives by low-level formatting. The tools for low-level formatting MFM/RLL drives would mess up the IDE drives. With later drives, they would ignore the low-level formatting attempts.On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:54:52 -0600 Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Low level what? If you mean low-level formatting, I don't think that's been possible to do with hard drives since the days of RLL and MFM.Correct (well the very earliest days of IDE), and it wouldn't affect performance anyway.
Themain reason for low-level formatting MFM/RLL drives was moving them to a new controller, or changing the interleave - nether are applicable to modern IDE/ATA drives. (It was easier to low-level format then to tweak the controller data clock to match the old controller.)
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