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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Format "Inhibit" option?
Message-ID: <1224@agora.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 02:16:13 GMT
References: <1064@esunix.UUCP:
Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <1064@esunix.UUCP:, by blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner):
: As far as I can see, the INHIBIT option of the 1.3 Format command is not
: documented in the 1.3 manual. What does this option do?
:
	The INHIBIT option is used to inhibit the validate and diskchange.
Use it for pretty much all CLI type formats... They had to put this in
because they were using the same format code for both workbench and CLI.
You couldn't have the drive INHIBITed from workbench if you were doing a
single drive format.
 
: While I'm asking questions about Format, how about one more? I've heard
: about (but never been exposed to) hard drive formatting on the IBMs. How
: does the Amiga get away with a single level of formatting, when I hear
: of two or three formats that must be done on the PCLones? Does the
: A2090A's Prep command perform some of this magic? Or could you
: concievably be forced to format your new hard drive on an IBM before the
: AmigaDOS format command could touch it?

	You could concievably be forced to format your drive on a PC before
using with the 2090... But all drives that I'm aware of come pre-formatted.
The only time you would need to do this on a 2090 would be if you hooked up
one of the ST-506-->SCSI cards to a drive. Luckely, pretty much all the other
HD interface people included some sort of low level format routine. (I like
the Supra one the best, but then I'm prejudiced..)
 
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