CompuServe Messages

"Au contraire, O Wedge breath…" Watch yer mouth, bitbrain! 😉 You will note that the statement was made that "ST-506 drives do not require low level formatting". This is an absolute statement which is INCORRECT. All hard drives (with the exceptions I gave) MUST BE LOW LEVEL FORMATTED. Unless someone can show me information otherwise, I stand by this as a fact and what I said as correct. Now the fact that a FORMAT on the 2090 does in fact AUTOMATICALLY do a low level format does NOT change the fact that a low level format is needed. Wait a minute… <purging mental text buffer of all future occurances of the word FACT>… okay, I'm back. Whoever made that original statement should have said "ST-506 drives don't need low level formatting on the 2090 controller", or "the 2090 controller does a low level format automatically". But the statement which was made was incomplete, misleading, and is what started this whole mess. 8) Anyways, if a low-level format HAS been done, and if the drive is STILL not functioning… well, that's bad news of another sort entirely. Rick