From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 30 12:26:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA26826 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gvr.win.tue.nl (root@gvr.win.tue.nl [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA26804; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.win.tue.nl (8.8.6/8.8.2) id VAA12923; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:26:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199707301926.VAA12923@gvr.win.tue.nl> Subject: Re: compaq armada and fdisk In-Reply-To: <199707301123.UAA21572@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jul 30, 97 08:53:12 pm" To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:26:07 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith wrote: > Guido van Rooij stands accused of saying: > > Michael Smith wrote: > > > Guido van Rooij stands accused of saying: > > > > I am trying to use fdisk (and fips) on a compaq armada 1130. Somehow, the > > > > bootsector seems to be protected. Does anyone now here how to bypass > > > > that? > > > > > > Hit the BIOS config and turn off "Virus Protection". > > > > I'm not an idiot ;-) > > No way of telling that from here 8) > > > There is no virus protection option on that Compaq Bios. > > Drat. How about antivirus software? Disk Mangler/Ezdisk oder etw.? > > Is it still protected if you boot from floppy? It sometimes is and sometimes is not ;-) It is not when I run fdisk from a fresh MSDOS bootflop. It is when I run fdisk from the harddisk itsself. It is also when I boot MSDOS from floppy and use FIPS. I called Compaq today and they'll replace the disk... -Guido