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Perhaps because you're dealing with the wrong manufacturers? There are routines in the ROMs for doing zoned formats, etc. The drives we use at work, from Conner, HP, CDC, Micropolis and SeaGate all reccomend low level formatting before putting in use to insure error free surfaces. The low level before use insures any problems that may have occured during shipping are caught. Yes…they all auto-park the heads, so in theory rough handling shouldn't damage the read/write areas on the media…but the reccomendation still exists. Don