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From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
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[Re:  FreeBSD wedges even booting from a floppy when wd0's slice
table contains executable code]:

Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> writes:

> If it were SCSI I'd say plug it in to the nearest adaptec
> controller and low level it (I fixed a drive one of my SGI's
> ate like this), but it's IDE.  You might want to give NT or
> OS/2 a whack at it if you've got them laying around.  There are
> programs to let you low level IDE drives out there, I believe
> they're mostly DOS based though, so that probably doesn't help.

Linux worked.

(I knew it had to be good for something :->.)

Jim Shankland
NLynx Systems, Inc.


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