[Coco] Formatting OS-9 hard drives

[Allen Huffman]

On Feb 18, 2017, at 11:49 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As far as the EZ135's go there is no low level formatting them.
> The EZ135's IDE, SCSI, & Parallel drives all respond the same way.  The
> carts are factory low level formatted and thus just ignore the low level
> format command.  I know the Syquest SQ44 & SQ88 drives also worked that way
> where you gave them a low level format command and they just chunked for a
> few seconds and then were done.

What is happening when I say yes to Low Level format, then? It takes quite some time, like many many minutes, before returning.