On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> AFAIK, SCSI is still the only hard drive interface that supports
low level
>...
> new sectors, headers, gaps, etc.
Most SCSI drives can't do that either. The tools needed to do it are just
too complex to embed in the drive.
I don't think you can do only a sector at a time or something, but SCSI
contains a command to tell the drive to "low-level format itself",
that supposedly does defect checking, etc. (and takes a very long
time), which I used to use. I never had a drive not support it, I just
later found out that it wasn't normally needed.
-- noah silva