sonicwhirls wrote:
Anyone know how long it should take to format an old 40Gb quantum
fireball HDD from a Tivo.Its been way over an hour now...And is this
likely the fault of the Tuna or the disc ?TIA

That sounds wrong...

Err... you have qunlock'ed the ex-TiVo drive first? It will otherwise be
presenting itself as a 9 megabyte drive and probably freaking out the
new host hardware I'd think...

Also HDtune (http://www.hdtune.com) will tell you if the drive has any
issues by showing what's been logged internally to SMART counters.

:-)

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Adrian C