From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 8 14:19:29 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 DD9A237B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iguana.icir.org (iguana.icir.org [192.150.187.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C66643E09 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo@iguana.icir.org) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.icir.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g68LJOm77725; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:19:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:19:24 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. Message-ID: <20020708141924.E77043@iguana.icir.org> References: <200207082108.g68L8RMr047199@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200207082108.g68L8RMr047199@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:08:27PM -0700 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 On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:08:27PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: ... > :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 for what matters, sometimes I managed to recover the disk by just dd'ing a zero block to the broken sectors using dd oseek= where nn is the sector number where read fails. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message