Just had a read of everything - great work! I’ll make a v9 iso.

for OS9? i dont think so.

IMO low level formatting tools most interesting application is when you have a problem with a drive.

for example you can certify drives with it and see if the number of physically corrupt blocks raises after overwriting the second time, which would be an indicator for shrapnel.

Besides the obviousness of clearing data permanently and fixing corrupt sectors. Are there any real noticeable improvements performance wise? Would this make an HDD behave differently than a normal format with previous data being overwritten? Please forgive my ignorance as I am sure this has been covered. Also would this be different on an SSD? This is mostly pertaining to os9. I am fully aware that some OS can't even do this type of format natively.  Any and all info or even a link covering this is very much oblieged.

Thanks!

I don’t think that this means any change for the super-mini. The ATI software checks the amount of VRAM present and behaves appropriately.

I tried display prefs. no go. As far as I know I was dorking around inside the case while it was still plugged in. I heard as spark and quickly unplugged the computer. When I powered back up, the graphics card was non-existent. I ordered the NVida 4MX on eBay. I installed it, this time with the computer unplugged, and it was up and running. The only problem is, at boot OS 9 loads in 256 colors not millions as the monitor control panel shows. And I can choose OS 9 In my system prefs. and boot into OS 9 from OS X Leop., But my Start-up disc Control Panel in OS 9 is non-responsive and locks up so I can't boot back into OS X.