Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 12:21:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard reading error Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960411122100.24231p-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199604111556.RAA05595@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Richard Chang wrote: > > > > Basically yes, if you *hardware reformat* your drive at the point i've > > > marked with an (*) above. > > > Hmmm, would't the program in the FreeBSD installation program > > before it adds the distribution after fdisk do the same thing? > > No. No known (to me) operating system does hardware-format the hard > disk before installing. So, is this the same as the low level format? Richard
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