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mediainit for 9.x and 10.x

 
Bob Nomura
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‎04-28-2000 03:58 AM

‎04-28-2000 03:58 AM

mediainit for 9.x and 10.x

Does anyone know if the mediainit command reads and writes to EVERY sector on
the hard disk ?
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Jason Luginbuhl_1
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‎05-02-2000 04:37 AM

‎05-02-2000 04:37 AM

Re: mediainit for 9.x and 10.x

The man page on medianinit(1) seems to indicate that is does. It mentions that
Initialization destroys "all" existing user data. I don't see how it could do
so without reading every sector.
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