Julian Elischer 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..
The track needs to be reformatted. Generally, this requires a vendor-specific tool to tunnel commands to the drives firmware. Who is the drive manufacturer? In general, Wester Digital provides these tools in the technical support section of its web site. I don't know about other vendors, but I would expect them to provide them as well, since this must be supported by the firmware to get the disk low level formatted in the first place. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
