On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 02:55:59PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> It is possible in every OS on every PC class machine with disks made since
> about 1993.
Make than "every machine with IDE". Other architectures can send raw IDE
commands as well...
> On any modern PC you can erase all the disk firmware and the bios firmware
> (the latter being done by the windows chernobyl virus).
However, most BIOSs have a recovery mode that'll let you replace the
firmware (on my system, you can set a jumper, enabling an emergency bit of
ROM that has just enough BIOS services to let you boot off a floppy and run
the BIOS flash utility). Other hardware tends to have the flash utility
stored within the flash itself (d'oh).
--Adam Sampson azz@gnu.org
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