Re: TO HELL WITH IT THEN......(re: disk-destroyer.c)

Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:53:46 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> There is nothing in kernel that would violate the standard. There is
> code that lets you send invalid commands to the drive, if you really
> want to.
>
> The disk-destroyer.c example only overwrites the master boot sector with
> zeroes. This isn't a violation of any standard.

The way I did it is a violation of the STANDARD, end of story you can pass
coded to the hardware that violate the ATA-ATAPI Specs.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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