Then run this and see if you live.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Craig Ruff wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:32:08PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > The SCSI low-level format glue performed by the HOST gets destroyed
> > If you write to LBA Zero.
>
> This is simply not true. I write to SCSI disk's block 0 all of the time
> and never loose data. Obviously, you can lose the partition information
> if that is where it is kept. I've also never had trouble with SCSI
> disks correctly writing multiple sectors starting at block zero. This
> includes older Quantum drives.
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/* scsikiller.c */
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/fcntl.h>
#include <scsi/scsi.h>
struct cdb6hdr{
unsigned int inbufsize;
unsigned int outbufsize;
unsigned char cdb [6];
} __attribute__ ((packed));
int main (int argv, char **argc)
{
int fd;
unsigned char tBuf[526];
struct cdb6hdr *ioctlhdr;
if (argv != 2) exit(-1);
fd = open (*(argc+1), O_RDWR );
if (fd < 0) exit (-1);
memset(&tBuf, 0, 526);
ioctlhdr = (struct cdb6hdr *) &tBuf;
ioctlhdr->inbufsize = 512;
ioctlhdr->outbufsize = 0;
ioctlhdr->cdb[0] = WRITE_6;
ioctlhdr->cdb[4] = 1;
return ioctl(fd, 1, &tBuf);
}
