From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 8 14:38: 5 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 6E4AD37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:38:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1028443E31 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:38:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0159.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.159] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17RgCh-0004tj-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:37:56 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2A0601.1E65F4E8@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:37:05 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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