7 Dec
2004
7 Dec
'04
00:04
Doug, On Monday 06 December 2004 15:05, Doug McGarrett wrote:
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I think you have it backwards; what you want to do is set all _used_ parts of the drive to something useless. The convention is to set everything to the letter "e".
Isn't it ASCII 'U'? That's the character code that has strictly alternating 1 and 0 bits (specifically, 01010101). ASCII 'e' is hex 65, or 01100101.
Once I knew why, but I no longer do. It is probably a succession of 1's and 0's. --doug
Randall Schulz