Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:27:13 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo@righi.ml.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HOW to format ? Message-ID: <36CC3F61.91EB4912@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9501011021560.649-100000@righi.ml.org>
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Low Level Formating is a function of the type of hard drive and the manufacturer. The manufacturer's have utilities to do LLF. There are tools to do LLF on SCSI but you should visit the manufacturer's web site for your IDE. Western Digital has a tool called WDDiag that does it from a DOS boot floppy. For WD disks you do a "write zeros" to the disk, which is their equivalent of a low level format. Kent Riccardo Veraldi wrote: > > Hello, > ther is any tool for FreeBSD to allow low level formatting of an hard > drive ???? or simple a formatting tool for hard drive ?? > thanks a lot. > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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