ATA100 80 wire/40 pin (was RE: kernel init error)

[Kendrick-LUG]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>On Thursday April 1 2004 01:47 am, Kendrick-LUG wrote:
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>>western digital puts out a install disk with utilities just for this
>>purpose. 
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>Many's the time I've had to explain to a computer owner that because they were 
>using a non-standard driver to mount their hard drive, NONE of their data is 
>recoverable.  We can re-use the drive if we install it properly and do a 
>low-level format.
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>Fortunately that's not an issue with Linux.
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actually i wasnt talking about ezdrive or what ever each company was 
taling about.  there is 2 parts tomost "install" disks now days  one is 
the stupid drive mangler and the other is brand specific hardware 
diagnostics and utilities  the latter two is what i was refering to  
ontrack,ezdrive  etc should be burned on the spot ;)