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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: hard reading error
To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:28:40 -0700 (MST)
Cc: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199604111556.RAA05595@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 11, 96 05:56:19 pm
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> > > Basically yes, if you *hardware reformat* your drive at the point i've
> > > marked with an (*) above.
> 
> > 	Hmmm, would't the program in the FreeBSD installation program 
> > before it adds the distribution after fdisk do the same thing?
> 
> No.  No known (to me) operating system does hardware-format the hard
> disk before installing.

NetWare's "compsurf" comes to mind...

But it's more of an intense error scan than anything else.

BSD already handles errors the way you caused them (man badsect).

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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