Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!clio!berger From: berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: (S)Low level format Message-ID: <16800353@clio> Date: 2 Sep 88 19:55:00 GMT References: <3084@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:boulder.Colorado.EDU:3084:clio:16800353:000:366 Nf-From: clio.las.uiuc.edu!berger Sep 2 14:55:00 1988 It MIGHT be doing that to be sure it re-seeks to track zero, then seeks to the track to be formatted, for consistency. But I've never seen another program that worked that way. Mike Berger Department of Statistics Science, Technology, and Society University of Illinois berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu {ihnp4 | convex | pur-ee}!uiucuxc!clio!berger