I just had to do that a few days ago, but it didn't work. Apparently
DOS is very stupid, and without dding the entire DOS partition it
wouldn't work. Who knows why. Low-levels are a bad idea. I know
someone who managed to ruin a number of disks trying that.
Laurence
Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :I normally wouldn't recommend it. But the same situation with a different (not to
>be mentioned) OS happened to me.
> :After hours of being frustrated, I decided the scsi controller went south. A
>cow-orker told me to LL the drive,
> :and voila, magic. These were IBM LVD 10kRPM drives, brand spankin new. I'd
>recommend updating sysinstall first, if
> :that doesn't work, LL the drives.
> :
> :-eric
>
> I really doubt that LLing the drive fixed your problem. You probably
> did something else while messing around that wound up fixing it.
>
> The simple answer when someone approaches you on the street and suggests
> that you can fix the world by LLing your hard drive, is "NO" :-).
>
> The worst I've ever had to do to a drive to make the system recognize
> it is zero-out the first few sectors with dd. That way the system
> believes that the drive does not have a valid label and lets you install
> a new one trivially.
>
> -Matt
>
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Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a
16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
1 bit of competition.
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