> Its BIOS has an option to low level format the IDE drive. I tried it > out on a knackered hard drive, and it did format that drive (in as much > as data was erased, the drive was blanked). Generally IDE interprets a reformat as a zeroing of the media. The disk itself controls the media so you can't really low level format it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list