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["Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:31:10 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:

> Going through a few years' worth of saved list mails I found this
> (and a lot of nonsense that I posted myself).

> Is this midlevel format as good as the 'low-level' format found in the
> BIOS of some computers which can take overnight?

Is there really such a thing as a "mid-level" format?

I have only ever known three steps for a hard disk. They are
  1. Low-level format
  2. FDISK
  3. Normal (high-level) format.