Re: dd = destroy data?

[Steve Jardine]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Luke C Gavel wrote:
>Otherwise, an actual low-level format on
> modern HDs renders them permanently unusable.
>

 To make this statement completely true, it would have to be changed to:
"Otherwise, an actual low-level format on >most< modern >IDE based< HDs >may<
render them permanently unusable."

SCSI hard drives, for instance, can almost always be low-level formatted. This
is the reason that companies like Adaptec, for example have a utility on the
board BIOS to accomplish exactly this.

-- 

                Regards,

                        Steve Jardine

Linux ID: 24951

Clarity is pleasurable.



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