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From: wutcd@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Subject: Re: Removing 386BSD from the hard disk
Message-ID: <wutcd.712344627@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Keywords: 386BSD
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References: <1992Jul21.152225.2082@lgc.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:30:27 GMT
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Kwan-Seng Law advised to low-level format the disk. If you don't want to
do this (on an IDE, about 10 % of IDE drives are problematically with this),
write a simple DOS program which nullifies all sectors of the first tracks
(via BIOS hard disk interrupt); i'm sure this will help, at least when done
on the whole disk.
good luck,
J"org
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