Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:10:49 -0600 From: "John Nielsen" <hackers@jnielsen.net> To: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. Message-ID: <017901c226c3$ef8b09a0$0900a8c0@max> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081308410.29644-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: > One of my FreeBSD development boxes had a hernia last week when it lost > power while writing to disk. The drive wrote out garbage to a track. > > I want to reformat the drive, (low level) but the bios doesn't have any > support to do this (In the past That is how I did this). > The machiine has 1 CD drive and no floppy.. > > anyone with any ideas as to how one can reformat a hard drive feel free to > lend me a clue.. Boot from a fixit CD, and use dd to zero out the whole disk, e.g.: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0c JN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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