Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:30:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard reading error Message-ID: <199604112230.AAA06832@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960411122100.24231p-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from "Richard Chang" at Apr 11, 96 12:21:26 pm
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As Richard Chang wrote: > > No. No known (to me) operating system does hardware-format the hard > > disk before installing. > > So, is this the same as the low level format? Very low format. What you're usually offered as ``low-level format'' (e.g. by some BIOSes in the section ``disk utilities'') is the MFM format command. IDE drives don't obey it, all they do when being faced with it is zeroing the disk, but *not* lowlevel reformatting their surface. As i wrote: you need a separate tool by your disk vendor. There seems to be a semi-standard, so it's possible that some other tool will also work, but it must be clearly labelled as being an IDE formatting tool. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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