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#Quantum lowlevel format?

    14-May-95 13:10:22
Sb: #Quantum lowlevel format?
Fm: Christian Busse 100121,1360
To: ALL
HOW can I lowlevel format a Quantum Lightning 730S hard disk on my Amiga with an Evolution (by MacroSystem) host adaptor??? I tried using the EvoInstall tool, the format utility that comes with it, SCSIed and SCSIutil which I dl'd here. All of the named programs 'hang' as soon as they try to access the drive. At work we have (amongst others) a PC with an Adaptec 1542 SCSI host adaptor which (rather: Adaptec's format utility) performs a lowlevel format of this disk (I took it there on friday) without a problem in just over 4 minutes. So the information I originally got here that Quantum hard disks can't be lowlevel formatted clearly is wrong! But how can I do it on the Amiga? Thanks! // Christian "ELP" Busse \X/ near Frankfurt, Germany