Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:06:18 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Bill Hussey <vfrboy@home.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't build kernel (was: Yo Quiero vnode_if.h) Message-ID: <19990803100618.B267@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19990803154935.U62948@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:49:35PM %2B0930 References: <37A68550.EE8B3BF@home.net> <19990803154935.U62948@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:49:35PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 1:59:45 -0400, Bill Hussey wrote:
>
> > and as I read it in the book, there is no way to format an IDE drive
> > except, as the book puts it, to format it with the BIOS. What does
> > this mean?
>
> When you boot up some machines, the BIOS setup screens include a hard
> disk format utility. You can use this to format (in Microsoft terms:
> low-level format) an IDE disk. I'm pretty sure that's not necessary.
>
and totally pointless. AFAIK, (modern) IDE drives can only be
"low-level" formatted by the manufacturer. Using a BIOS format
utility will only succeed in trashing the servo info on the disk
thereby rendering the disk useless. Most (all?) IDE drives protect
themselves against these BIOS programs by simply sending back an
"OK" message, but without actually doing anything.
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