>I believe I remember reading somewhere that IDE drives, used in PCs, can't
>be low-level formatted, and that the online drive manuals, being generic
>ones for both Quantum's SCSI and IDE drives, don't make that distinction.
>I'm not certain of that, though, by any means.  Anybody?

If it were an IDE drive, the SCSI bus wouldn't see it! (More likely, it
would burn out the SCSI chip!)

Dan Killoran