[Coco] Formatting OS-9 hard drives

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 19 February 2017 11:12:00 Allen Huffman wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2017, at 11:49 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As far as the EZ135's go there is no low level formatting them.
> > The EZ135's IDE, SCSI, & Parallel drives all respond the same way. 
> > The carts are factory low level formatted and thus just ignore the
> > low level format command.  I know the Syquest SQ44 & SQ88 drives
> > also worked that way where you gave them a low level format command
> > and they just chunked for a few seconds and then were done.
>
> What is happening when I say yes to Low Level format, then? It takes
> quite some time, like many many minutes, before returning.

That may be re-directed to a surface scan, which would take a bit of 
time.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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