WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

-> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda (or whatever drive it is) bs=1024
 WC> count=whatever...

 WC> fdisk -l ( from Ramdisk Knoppix Linux) no longer sees the drive at
 WC> all. 

 WC> I _may_ give it one last try using your command above. What 
 WC> specification for the hard drive is the "count" in your command 
 WC> above.

Actually I've found that with dd if you leave stuff out it seems to do just
fine,  most of the time.  If you leave out "count" it'll do the
whole drive. If you just want to stomp on the MBR after something else has
messed it up, then a fairly low number will do.

 WC> On the Promise card the drive would be /dev/hde.

I did try one of those cards one time in a linux box here.  With the MB
stuff still enabled,  the ports on that card were hde, f, g, and h if I'm
remembering right (with a, b, c, and d being the original MB ports).  What
I wanted to try but haven't gotten around to yet was disabling the ports in
the CMOS setup and seeing if the ones on the card would then be seen as
hda, etc.

 WC> Linux last saw the drive as 85 Gig when in fact it's a 65 Gig drive
 WC> after attempting to install Windows first.

Odd.  I'm not sure what to make of that just yet. I expect I'll start
bumping into this sort of thing when I actually get my hands on some larger
drives (biggest I have now is a 10G,  which is sitting here waiting for me
to install it).

 WC> Now even on the Promise card the drive isn't seen at all.

Weird.

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