I just had to do that a few days ago, but it didn't work. Apparently
DOS is very stupid, and without dding the entire DOS partition it
wouldn't work. Who knows why. Low-levels are a bad idea. I know
someone who managed to ruin a number of disks trying that.
Laurence
Matthew Dillon wrote:
:I normally wouldn't recommend it. But the same situation with a different (not to
be mentioned) OS happened to me.
:After hours of being frustrated, I decided the scsi controller went south. A
cow-orker told me to LL the drive,
:and voila, magic. These were IBM LVD 10kRPM drives, brand spankin new. I'd
recommend updating sysinstall first, if
:that doesn't work, LL the drives.
:
:-eric
I really doubt that LLing the drive fixed your problem. You probably
did something else while messing around that wound up fixing it.
The simple answer when someone approaches you on the street and suggests
that you can fix the world by LLing your hard drive, is "NO" :-).
The worst I've ever had to do to a drive to make the system recognize
it is zero-out the first few sectors with dd. That way the system
believes that the drive does not have a valid label and lets you install
a new one trivially.
-Matt
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Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a
16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
1 bit of competition.
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