Actually, the SCSI devices are the ones that CAN be low-level formatted,
unlike older IDE devices. When I installed my SCSI drive, I had problems
getting it to boot. The support technician at Seagate asked if I had done a
low-level format. Being familiar with IDE, I told him that I though that was
not allowed. He corrected me said that it was often needed with SCSI devices
to make sure it worked properly with the SCSI controller. I have not needed
to do this often, but I never had trouble with it whenever I did perform the
low-level format.

Peter Shkabara, P.E.
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Columbia College - Sonora, CA
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-----Original Message-----
Yes ,it can,
SCSI is a totally different set-up,since it,in a larger sense,operates as
one big system,connecting everything.SCSI is an entirely different interface
than the more popular IDE. It is more of a system level interface, meaning
Hi,
>
>One of our team low level formated a scsi hard disk by mistake, and
>the low level format didn't finish the whole process.  An error message
>appeared and since then, the scsi card freezes at boot-up, and
>occasionnaly,
>we get a message saying that the disk is connected, but not ready.


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