[G4] Initializing a new Hard drive/OSX

sr ferenczy srf7425 at rit.edu
Tue Aug 5 05:34:05 PDT 2003


according to apple, all "low level format" did was zero all data (aka 
write all zeros to the disk) thus, they actually made something easier 
to use by naming it more appropriately.

sandor

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 08:30  AM, Dale Hoffman wrote:
>>
>
> I've noticed that the Disk Utility in OSX no longer allows Low Level 
> formatting.
> You can write ones and zeros but no Low Level option.
> Is there a reason for this?
> DaleH



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