Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:23:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Nielsen <hackers@jnielsen.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081422100.29644-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <017901c226c3$ef8b09a0$0900a8c0@max>
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this is not a 'reformat' what I want to do is an old-fashionned refomat/verify where the controller writes new track headers etc. On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, John Nielsen wrote: > 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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