Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:07:36 +0200 (MET DST) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: Low-level format with Sg drivers |
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> No idea... I will have to check it out. Perhaps different revision > ZIP drives handle format requests differently. I can't make mine > format... how long does your take to format?
About two minutes. I had no problem with formatting using drives with the following firmware revisions: E.0809/05/96 (that's an internal SCSI drive) and J.0305/29/97 (that's an external parallel drive).
> Ah... OK. I was under the impression ZIP disks didn't have a grown > table. I will have to check this out...
Yes, they do and the drives I used defaulted to auto-remap sectors.
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