TOPIC
It seems that Drive Setup 1.7 does not allow me to perform a low level format of my ATA hard drive; the option is dimmed. I tried newer versions of Drive Setup, and they behave the same. Can you explain?
DISCUSSION Beginning with Drive Setup 1.7, the low level format option for all ATA drives has been disabled. This test was not performing a low level format. This test instead wrote zeros and performed subsequent reads to verify drive calculated checksums on the written data. With the exception of the read portion, this test was the same as the write zeroes option. The combination of both tests and the larger capacity drives that Apple is shipping provides unnecessary redundancy at the expense of the user experience. Drive Setup users can achieve the same functionality by selecting the "Zero all data" initialization option before initializing the hard drive followed by the Test Disk... function in the Function menu. |
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| Product Area: | Apple Software |
| Category: | Utility Software |
| Sub Category: | Hard Disk Setup Software |
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