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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.
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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.
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> 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..
> 


All of the manufacturers have a program that will do that. Many of 
them even produce a bootable floppy. Check their support web page.

Kent


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Kent Stewart
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