Re: My spin on the flash bios interface...

Kevin Lentin (kevinl@cs.monash.edu.au)
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:00:02 +1100

On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 07:53:12PM -0500, Dave Cinege wrote:
> I would still consider cat>/dev/hda worse.
> A BIOS chip is easily reprogrammed. Data that is gone, is gone.

Disk data can be recovered from backup. A destroyed bios usually requires a
trip to the manufacturer to get a new chip or a device to program the bios
into the chip. You can boot a machine with a dead disk from floppy. You
can't activate a machine with a screwed bios, can you?

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