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Hi John! >> It wont? Gee, I wonder what that button labeled "Low Level Format Drive" is for then? You suppose someone at CBM put it there to fool the rest of us <g>. I used it to Low-Level format my Toshiba MK535B drive. I guess the only reason it took 15-minutes to come back and say it was ready was because CBM put in a timing loop. Gee, those guys are such pranksters <g>. << Believe me, it won't! If you use a scsi monitor (I have written one for debugging the Oktagon and ATAPI devices) you'll see that HDToolBox does NOT issue a SCSI Format command (code 0x04) to the drive. I checked this again after I read your message. It simply clears the harddisks RDB by using TD_Format which is NOT the same. BTW, I am talking about HDToolBox shipped with Workbench 3.1, older versions may be different. Why they called it "low level format" instead of "format" or "make drive empty" I don't know. >> Are you saying that HDToolBox low level formatting is bogus, or that the Quantum drives require a special type of low level formatting? << HDToolBox is bogus. Oliver