Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:08:11 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: "Alexander Sack" <pisymbol@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to format an ide hard disc in a usb enclosure Message-ID: <200809050808.m8588BFx006299@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:57:12 EDT." <3c0b01820809041457wc629c60i3b876b3895dc9e3d@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, Reference: > From: "Alexander Sack" <pisymbol@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:57:12 -0400 > Message-id: <3c0b01820809041457wc629c60i3b876b3895dc9e3d@mail.gmail.com> "Alexander Sack" wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.org> wrote: > > I know, hence the background, yes I'm fully aware of all repercusions thanks :-) > > Then if you understand IDE, understand what a low-level format really > is (was), then you know that this is probably NOT what you want to do > on your disk and understand it will NOT fix your problem. > > Other than some special vendor utility or BIOS utility, low-level > format doesn't make sense for IDE disks. There is no command for > "format" and trying to reset the geometry like the old days doesn't > even apply to modern disks. > > If you want to try a low-level format tool (for IDE that is probably > just writing 0's or 1's to every sector on the disk and letting the > hard disk automatically map bad blocks), I would just dd all zero's to > it then try to create a filesystem. If you still get media errors, > your disk is foobar or about to be foobar, its cheap and you already > stated you don't have any critical data on it so buy a new disk! :D > > In fact Seagate offers a Windows too to do exactly this called ZeroFill: > > http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=65a8783c970ce010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD&locale=en-GB > > Not trying to be too cheeky here, but I think what you are asking > doesn't makes sense...at least to me.... > > Thanks! I do not run Windows, I run FreeBSD. Repeat: How can I low level format this dik under FreeBSD ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail plain ASCII text. HTML & Base64 text are spam. www.asciiribbon.org
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