31 Oct
2016
31 Oct
'16
5:04 p.m.
If you cared about not erasing the drive
manufacture's data on sealed
media Winchester and the like you have to avoid any writes to cylinder 0
at all.
On a floppy?
It might not be relevant HERE, but SOME computers have a different
physical format on track 0 (such as systems that evolved from FM to MFM
and continued to have track 0 be single density)
Writing to track 0 could be hazardous to whatever is s'posed to be on
track 0.