using the badblocks to wipe a drive

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Author: eric
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To: eculbert, 'Main PLUG discussion list'
Old-Topics: Re: How to make sure it's really gone?
Subject: using the badblocks to wipe a drive
Assuming someone runs that command, and even kills block zero. Is there any
way to get the drive working again as a hard drive? Obviously the data is
gone at that point. Is the solution just to run it on hda1, hda2, etc.
instead of just had?

_eric

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