jp10@GTE.COM (Jeffrey Perry) (12/05/90)
I am working on a program to securely erase hard drives. I have managed to easily overwrite my entire test drive. (The test machine is an SE/30 with an internal 40 meg hard drive) What I need to know is how to get the device driver that comes on it back on it. Apple's HD SC setup program doesn't seem to be working on it. (Even if it did, it doesn't write the device driver does it?) It seems to format fine but hangs in the middle of the verify phase. This leads me to my few questions: 1) Do you know of a program from appple or another company that will put the driver back on? There must be something I can get from apple!? 2) Is the dvice driver placed in the same blocks (AND the same number of blocks) on each hard drive? If so I will just copy the blocks from another mac's HD. 3) Any idea why one of the two machine's I have tried in on won't even boot from floppy? Are there any standards regarding this stuff? Does this information vary from manafacture to manafacture? Jeff -- === Jeffrey Perry ON COOP AT: === Computer Science Undergraduate GTE, EDCD === Northeastern University, Boston, Ma 100 First Ave, Waltham Ma === "Two minds but with a single memory!"-MaxH jperry@gte.com