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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!uunet!not-for-mail From: lidl@rodan.UU.NET (Kurt J. Lidl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Removing 386BSD from the hard disk Keywords: 386BSD Message-ID: <154b5sINNo47@rodan.UU.NET> Date: 28 Jul 92 20:37:16 GMT References: <1992Jul21.152225.2082@lgc.com> <wutcd.712344627@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Organization: AlterNet -- Falls Church, Virginia, USA Lines: 32 NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net wutcd@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes: >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. And under 386bsd, you would use "dd". As in: "dd if=/386bsd of=/dev/rwd0c obs=8192 count=1" %% That ought to pretty much blow away the first track or so... Much simpler than having to go in and actually *touch* code that mucks about with BIOS calls. (I did that once. A screaming nightmare inside of DEBUG that I shall remember for a long time, representing most, if not all the things that I really, really, really, dislike about doing *anything under DOS!) -Kurt %% if you have something other than the start of the hard disk at the beginning of the c partition (like you are running with dos co-existing on the same hard drive), this will not work for you, I think. -- /* Kurt J. Lidl (lidl@uunet.uu.net) | Unix is the answer, but only if you */ /* | phrase the question very carefully. */ /* Don't even think of confusing my opinions with my employer's opinions! */