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Re: [opensuse] scrathsing old harddisks
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:55:11 -0700
- Message-id: <200803270755.11629.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 27 March 2008 07:48, Bob Rea wrote:
If you use SCSI drives, then the SCSI adaptor may have a BIOS function
for invoking low-level disk formatting operations, assuming the drive
hardware permits it. You could look there.
But I had gotten the impression (in this list a while back, if I recall
correctly) that modern drives have their addressing information written
at the factory and provide no means to change or redo it in the field.
Randall Schulz
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U.S. government SECRET requires a low-level format.
How does one do a low level format? I got asked to do this
at work but no one would tell me how.
If you use SCSI drives, then the SCSI adaptor may have a BIOS function
for invoking low-level disk formatting operations, assuming the drive
hardware permits it. You could look there.
But I had gotten the impression (in this list a while back, if I recall
correctly) that modern drives have their addressing information written
at the factory and provide no means to change or redo it in the field.
...
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Bob Rea
Randall Schulz
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