[G4] Initializing a new Hard drive/OSX

[Sean O'Malley]

It is unsafe to do a low-level format of an IDE drive. That is really a
SCSI-only thing.



On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Dale Hoffman wrote:

> >I just did the same thing, but I simply used the Disk Utility in OS
> >X to "erase" the HD.  It became instantly recognizable & I cloned my
> >backup drive with Carbon Copy Cloner.  I should imagine you could
> >use the same utility from the OS X CD.
> >
> >Sig
> >
>
> 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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