Re: Read Capacity

From: Maxim S. Shatskih (maxim_at_storagecraft.com)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:30:04 +0300

    Any SCSI drives are always low-level formatted, and respond to READ
CAPACITY.

    Windows "format" is nothing more then a VERIFY of all blocks on the disk,
followed by creating an empty filesystem. 

-- 
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com
"Sara Fonseca" <sara.fonseca@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23$0yr3K%23EHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> what should a NOT FORMATTED USB device answer to the Read Capacity and Read
> Format Capacity SCSI commands??
>
>

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