Chuck(G)
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However, the failing disk does not work on any machine under any circumstances?
I think what you have is one good drive and one bad one -- and that's it. It's quite possible for a drive's geometry to be detected any yet the drive itself is non-functional. Just because the drive reports its geometry does not mean that all is well in the actual functionality of the drive....What i wished to expose with the last pics i got using seagate utility on the commodore machine is that with both HD (the working and the fail ones) it seems that the machine recognize the hardware CHS and also their translate (see under che DOS column!)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dx54b5yg5zhw2hw/AAC-nEE8Z36w-Pgb4hN4l5r0a?dl=0
I think the CP2024 is ignoring the format command, as many IDE drives do.
It's really not possible to LLF IDE drives at home. It normally requires a factory device/procedure to successfully LLF an IDE drive.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/geom/formatLow-c.html
Per the photos at [here], Seagate had put "Do not low-level format" stickers onto some of its drives.Some early IDE drives (I'm thinking Maxtor) did respond to the "Format Track" command--and the result was usually disaster.
The sticker was cheaper ?One wonders why they just didn't disable the LLF code in the drive firmware.