[PLUG] linux issues, identical hardware, one works with linux,the other just with windows. Solar flares?

[AthlonRob]

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:52, Galen Seitz wrote:
> Karol Kulaga <root at loraksus.org> wrote:
> 
> > -To totally reset the partition information, write zero's to the drive, 
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512
> > 
> > Ok, cool, did. Took bloody long (like 3 hours for a 60gb drive), putting a
> > task in the background in a console is just so damn cool though ;)
> 
> The person that posted that forgot to add the count argument.
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

I think that was intentional... they wanted to overwrite the whole disk,
'just to be sure' ...

Rob