[weblacky]

Those you can just shut down the system during an exercise.

You just cannot shut down the low-level format.

Exercises are different just like DD, go ahead and turn off your system and start again but don’t use auto and don’t use format in FX.

You’ll be fine as long as you’re not inside a low-level format. Which if you’re in exercise, you’re not!!

In FX, the dangerous one is the format command. People mistake it for file system format and get trapped in a SCSI Media low level format. Anything else you can just yank power to the system and try again in terms of the HDD. A low level format is a SCSI procedure that doesn’t allow media interaction until complete. So if you stop or loose power during that, you must begin again and go the entire way through before the drive will ever become ready again.

So stay away from FX format and auto!!!!