5 Nov
2010
5 Nov
'10
5:56 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
?I think you'll be ok. ?The worst that'll
happen is you'll need to find a
fancy SCSI utility to reformat your drive while giving you a lot of control
over *how* it's reformatted.
Any suggestions of a name I should be seeking? I presume this means
that there is not something already open-source or built-into Linux (a
device driver that could be altered)? This latter aspect might need to
be explored since if I want to 'dd' the contents for a backup then I
would need to construct a way to save the extra bytes.