[ale] Hosed a drive

[James P. Kinney III]

I don't think writing past a partition boundary can hose a drive. But
that appears to have happened. Check your bios and see it it supports
the low-level format. It might be called initialize a drive. 

Failure Fixed Disk 0 error means the bios can't read the 0'th cylinder.
Whatever is on there is trashed but an fdisk may recover the drive.

On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 12:11, jeff hubbs wrote:
> I was trying to do something that was recently mentioned here in order 
> to make a functional clone of a machine's only drive to another, smaller 
> drive (1.7GB to 863MB).
> 
> Anyway, I did some dd'ing and some copying while booted up in 
> single-user mode, and I appear to have whacked the target drive entirely.
> 
> With the target drive being the only one hooked up and jumper set 
> accordingly, at POST, I get "Failure Fixed Disk 0".
> 
> Booting up with Tom's Root Boot, I see:
> 
> Partition check
> hda: irq timeout: status=0x58
> 		(DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest)
> ide0: reset timed-out, status 0xd0 (busy)
> .
> .
> .
> hda: drive not ready for command
> unable to read partition table
> 
> One thing that might have gone wrong was trying to dd from the /boot 
> partition of the source drive to the first partition in the target 
> drive, which was smaller (writing past partition boundary?)
> 
> Is there a way to get this drive back in service or have I created a 
> paperweight?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> 
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