Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:37:05 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. Message-ID: <3D2A0601.1E65F4E8@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081308410.29644-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > 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.. The track needs to be reformatted. Generally, this requires a vendor-specific tool to tunnel commands to the drives firmware. Who is the drive manufacturer? In general, Wester Digital provides these tools in the technical support section of its web site. I don't know about other vendors, but I would expect them to provide them as well, since this must be supported by the firmware to get the disk low level formatted in the first place. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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