Re: Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Wed Mar 07 2001 - 16:15:46 EST


Then run this and see if you live.

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Craig Ruff wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:32:08PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > The SCSI low-level format glue performed by the HOST gets destroyed
> > If you write to LBA Zero.
>
> This is simply not true. I write to SCSI disk's block 0 all of the time
> and never loose data. Obviously, you can lose the partition information
> if that is where it is kept. I've also never had trouble with SCSI
> disks correctly writing multiple sectors starting at block zero. This
> includes older Quantum drives.
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