From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 17 20:48:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2A137B8B7 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:48:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA69922; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:47:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:47:16 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: J McKitrick Cc: Charles Jernigan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! In-Reply-To: <20000318032858.A25228@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J McKitrick wrote to Charles Jernigan: > You don't actually 'remove' anything. Just re-format it. Maybe it > will be a low-level format, but it can be done without removing > anything. Fdisk should be able to do it. > > jm > Noooo..... One should never low-level format modern hard disk drives. Low-level formats are done by the manufacturer, and, at that time, additional track information is stored physically on the platter surfaces that may be destroyed after a consumer low-level format. Low-level formats are almost *always* unnecessary... And, when they ARE necessary, you are best advised to buy a new drive :-) I think, though, what you mean is not "low-level format", but "repartition in DOS and reformat in DOS". In that case, you would be correct. format != low-level format! :-) -- Ryan Thompson Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message