this is not a 'reformat' what I want to do is an old-fashionned refomat/verify where the controller writes new track headers etc.
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, John Nielsen wrote: > Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.. > > Boot from a fixit CD, and use dd to zero out the whole disk, e.g.: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0c > > JN > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
