Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Low-level format of hard disk Message-ID: <4511@bwdls58.UUCP> Date: 10 Oct 90 16:28:11 GMT References: Sender: mlord@bwdls58.UUCP Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 14 In article jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin) writes: >The only problem I know of when you excessively format a hard drive is the >wear you place on the heads. This has caused some drives to pre-maturely ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ????? Really? I mean, it's not like the heads aren't always sitting over fast spinning platters anyway. So this cannot mean mechanical wear. So what does it mean? Inquiring minds would like to know? -- ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!mlord%bmerh724 | Climb Free Or Die (NH) | | MLORD@BNR.CA Ottawa, Ontario | Personal views only. | |________________________________|________________________|