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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: Restoring the MBR to DOS only
Organization: Private Site, Member of Individual Network e. V.
Message-ID: <DDE4MF.9DE@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
References: <40npf0$j1g@giga.bga.com> <40oioi$3fc@palmer.demon.co.uk> <40pms2$os5@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 06:27:50 GMT
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I was told that my last comment to the original posting looked like
I wanted "to bash away a potential FreeBSD user."
I'm sorry that it looked like that. This wasn't my intention.
Please take my apologies, I'll try to give some more useful
information.
Yesterday at morning I was in a very good mood and I just wanted to
express that a machine can be called poor if it has to run Messy-DOS
and Windoze again after running an operating system (here: FreeBSD.)
This was what I wanted to say - perhaps it was written down in a
way people could misunderstand it. As the English language isn't my
mother language, I think it's a difference between the way how I
wrote it, how I think it and how people understand it. Sorry.
I didn't see that his machine has an EIDE hard disk - this is the thing
that could cause the problems as FreeBSD doesn't support EIDE hard
disks yet. When I used an ST3660A drive for some days some weeks ago,
I had problems with the LBA function of my Soyo motherboard as FreeBSD's
wd driver cannot handle more than 16 heads.
So you can just run the disk in normal mode and let it use just the
first 1024 cylinders - with 16 heads and a backpack of sectors this
makes a limit of about 504 MByte. But with this limit, the ST3660A
worked fine for me.
In article <40pms2$os5@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>From BSD:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0 count=100
>
>This will null out the first hundred sectors of your (IDE) hard disk,
>make it appear like a virgin disk for any subsequent installation
>utility. (Not exactly what you've been asking, but similar in
>effect.)
What manufacturer is this drive coming from? I think it was Seagate
who has that SGATFMT3 utility availble on their ftp server. It supports
almost all Seagate drives and can even low-level format (E)IDE drives.
Does anyone has something similar to low-level format some older
Maxtor 340 meg IDE drive? (Okay, this may not be the right newsgroup
here.)
Bye,
Martin
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