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Re: hard drive questions
- Subject: Re: hard drive questions
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 25 Jun 2002 08:14:13 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
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Jim Conger asked:
<snip>
>I'd like to wipe and reformat both
>drives and find them to good homes. Two obsticles:
>
>1. I don't have dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdd like I would on a UNIX
> machine. Anyone ever write a wipe utility?
>
>2. Can I get the original software for the Sider? Is it worth trying
> to preserve or re-create the CP/M, Pascal, and DOS3.3 partitioning
> on the Sider? Should I forget about it and format in ProDOS?
ProSel's Cat Doctor contains a volume "Wipe" command which does
what you want. You'll have to tab to the second menu page to get it.
-michael
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