From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sun Sep 27 1998 - 00:13:00 EDT
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:48:28 -0400, Slip wrote:
>Hi,
> I was playing around one day and accidently found out about the built-in
>low-level formatter in the BIOS. (I assumed this was what it was-all I know
>is that I had no hard drive left!) Just wonderin why IBM didn't put this
>into the doccumentation. Sure, it only takes on try to see what it does, but
>that's a pretty bad mode of thought for letting people know what exactly
>that little icon is...:-) Furthermore, does anyone know what this actually
>does? I mean, is it a low level format, or a simple high-level format?
It's a low level format alright, and I did the same mistake you did. :(
Now I did worse - I fried the board on my 720MB drive while it was hooked
up to my P200 (I now have a 1.4GB in my 701, quieter, faster, and supports SMART).
I'v
>been told to never do a LLF on ANY drive, or it'll never be the same as it
>was beforeas far as speed. Anyone?
I've never heard that. I've done low level formats on nearly every HD type except ESDI, and
had no problems whatsoever. But these days, except with SCSI occasionally, it's really
not that nessecary.
Also like to know if there any other cool
>hidden things like this 701 users know of.
Yeah, Fn or CRTL-Page up or down to change the colors in the BIOS screen when
you first get to it.
Not Fn-F1, but when you boot up.
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