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From: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>
To: Rob Zietlow <Zietlow@berbee.com>, Questions@freeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Lowlevel format
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:58:27 +0100
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On Saturday 27 October 2001 7:45 pm, Rob Zietlow wrote:
> Anyone familar with a utility that will perform a low level format on a
> hard disk before an install?  I believe that I am having issues with my
> hard disk and I would like to give this a try. 5 times I have installed and
> gotten 5 different sefaults when I try to run make buildworld, but install
> make buildworld works fine on another spare computer around the house, so I
> am pretty sure it isn't anything with cvsup.

Often this can be a sign of bad memory, not bad hard discs.

> I did a search on google and only found things for making low level
> formatting a floppy disk, or utilities to make a disk in windows.   Any
> help would be appreciated.
>
> Rob
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