Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:19:24 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. Message-ID: <20020708141924.E77043@iguana.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <200207082108.g68L8RMr047199@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:08:27PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081308410.29644-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <200207082108.g68L8RMr047199@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:08:27PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: ... > :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 for what matters, sometimes I managed to recover the disk by just dd'ing a zero block to the broken sectors using dd oseek=<nn> where nn is the sector number where read fails. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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