Re: The Full Explaination ... (re: disk-destroyer.c)

From: Felix von Leitner (felix@convergence.de)
Date: Sat Jul 22 2000 - 15:50:03 EST


Thus spake Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org):
> However this is enough to protect against BAD HDIO_DRIVE_CMD calls.

I still don't get it.
Does an attacker simply cause data corruption or a permanent hardware
defect?

I.e. what do I do after this hit me - reformat or buy a new hard disk?

Felix

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