Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 19:42:02 +0100 From: dave@odyssey.ucc.ie (David B. O'Byrne) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: what is the best way to low level format an IDE drive ? Message-ID: <9504111842.AA10841@odyssey.ucc.ie>
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Hi I just was given a 200 meg Seagate Model ST 1239A drive (it also has SWIFT Model 94354-230 on it). I was told its dead, but if I can recover whats on it its mine. Its DOS formatted so ill just try some fairly standard boot from my hard disk and see if I can see it. Assuming its a hardware fault, whats the lowest level format I can do ? I think it might have something bad on it, so Id like to do the equivalent of marking sectors bad from FreeBSd and mounting it up then as a second drive. I looked at the FAQ, and :wq
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