> I believe my writing turns out a bit unclear. What I meant to say was > that I actually did a "dd -if /dev/zero -f /dev/sdC1/raw" before I > figured out that it should have been "dd -if /dev/zero -of > /dev/sdC1/data" instead. Hence I was wondering if writing those zeroes > to the raw file could be the source of my problem (in case those > zeroes translate to a command I really shouldn't have given), because > this is one of the things I did right before the problem appeared. > Anyway, thanks for the reference, I'll take a look at scuzz(8).
p. 361 ata 6.1 notes that command 0 is NOP. ata nop does put the drive into an error state so it could have screwed things up into you reboot. it shouldn't, but you'd have to trace through the code to prove it doesn't. - erik
