On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:04:39AM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> I spoke with a Sandisk CF engineer about the issue and he told me
> that if power goes south during a write then bad things happen. He
> also mentioned that if I could get a low level utility that would
> blank the CF with zeros then it should be recoverable.
>
> So far I haven't found any good utility for DOS, windows, or Linux
> that A) works and B) Isn't cripple ware with that feature disabled.
> I welcome any suggestions for software to try.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rhd10 bs=1k ?
The CF goes through the IDE drivers, right? The "entire disk" raw
device should provide you access even if you don't have a valid
partition table; that is, after all, how fdisk *puts* one there in the
first place.
That may not be *exactly* the proper device to go to, but it should
give you the idea...
Cheers,
- jra
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