Ian,

I am not sure that format time of approximately 1GB per minute is out of
line. However, it would be interesting to see what speeds other users have
seen with different interfaces. For example, SCSI, ATA66, etc. How about it
folks?

I might note that the CPU speed and amount of RAM could affect format times.
Years ago I wrote a formatting program and found that building up the sector
information did use up more CPU time than I had anticipated. Of course
computers are very much faster today than they were then, so perhaps
hardware delays make the CPU delay seem insignificant.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
A used but fairly new 40Gb Western Digital drive is taking around 30-35 secs
to format EACH PERCENT, in other words, almost 55 minutes to format the
whole drive.

Ian Porter

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