WDXT-150 utilities?

[Fred Cisin]

> > But that's effective in performing a low-level
> > format, no? Of this I'm pretty sure. If it's an oldie

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Alexandre Souza wrote:
>     "Moroless". I remember some WD and Seagate controllers had more than
> just a low level formatter. I'm quite sure (although I don't see that in
> more than 10 years) that some seagate cards had a big menu with options like
> changing interleave, finding best interleave, low level format, surface test
> et al. Maybe I'm mistaken, who knows? :oP

Speedstor was fairly good for low level formatting.
Watch out, though.  There was a short period of time in which Steve
Gibson? made the defaults include restoring to use sectors that had been
marked bad, but that successfully formatted!  That negated the
manufacturers' tests that had marked some sectors as being untrustworthy.

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