On 22/05/2005, at 18:11, Joe Rhett wrote:

You need to overwrite the metadata (se above) which are located in
different places again depending on metadata format.


So where is it located with the sil3114 controler?
(same as 3112, but with 4 ports...)


On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:45:05AM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote:

Depends on what BIOS you have on there, several exists for the SiI
chips, -current or mkIII would tell you which. Just null out the last
63 sectors on the disks and you should be fine since all possible
formats are in that range...


I know how to do this using dd from the start of the disk. How do I do
this at the end of the disk?

man dd ? :)

you need to get the size of the disk in sectors (hint atacontrol)

then you do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adN oseek=(size-63)

- Søren


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