From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 8 14: 0:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B989037B40C for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1643F43E52 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020708210014.YEKB6023.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org> for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:00:14 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA30493 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:47:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:47:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message