On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 09:06:45AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> If it's scsi, just low-level it using the SCSI utils.
> Otherwise, it's my understanding that IDE drives are NOT
> supposed to be low-leveled. I suggest you "man e2fsck" and
> see if that'll do it. Just a reminder, though, that it
> won't run on a mounted file system, so be sure to unmount
> that drive before trying to run e2fsck.
If you want to low-level format an IDE drive you really need
to go the the manufactures web pages and get their formater (generally
a DOS app). Western Digital definitely has one, as does Seagate.
Seems like I've seen one for Maxtor as well. But you must use the
correct utility for the brand of drive you have.
> John
Mike
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