On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Henry Nelson wrote:

> > without losing the partitions you want to keep. If the disk is empty,
> > on the other hand, why not just zero out the whole disk? I've done
> 
> 1) How's that done?  2) Do you need to know C/H/S, size or some other
> parameter? TIA.

How to zero out the whole disk? "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d bs=8k"
should work. Seagate has, or had, free utilities on their web site to
low-level format ATA disks (not NetBSD, of course), but that would be
overkill (read foolish) for a new disk.