Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:46:29 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. Message-ID: <3D2A0835.9000608@owt.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081308410.29644-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer 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.. > All of the manufacturers have a program that will do that. Many of them even produce a bootable floppy. Check their support web page. Kent > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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