[syslinux] Slightly OT: Anyone got a PXE bootable HDD low levelformat tool?

[Bitter, Rijk [NCSNL]]

Hi Tim,

low-level format is an 'old school' tool.
It is not necessary for modern harddisks anymore and can even damage
your modern disks.
I would stick with a normal bootdisk, using fdisk, gdisk, (linux) disk druid,
whatever.

best regards,
Rijk

-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com]On
Behalf Of Tim Bates
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 1:33 AM
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
Subject: [syslinux] Slightly OT: Anyone got a PXE bootable HDD low
levelformat tool?


Slightly off topic, but does anyone have a utility for low level 
formating Maxtor ATA hard disks that can be booted from PXELinux (either 
as some kind of binary or as a floppy image)?

I just went to get the official tools, but they only have a floppy 
creator (which won't help me in Linux, or without a floppy drive) and a 
CD ISO. And it seems 99% of 3rd party software is unhelpfully the same 
(or is a Windows program).


TB

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