Re: Best Free Program to Clear Hard Disk ?

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On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:06:10 GMT, Johnny B Good
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On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:03:16 -0800, "nobody >"
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Well ...
I've blown away many precious boot floppies by plugging in the floppy
data cable upside down. I hate it when I do that....

Shortly before giving up on floppies entirely, I finally had a full
set of shrouded, keyed motherboard+floppy drive and a cable to match.
I recommend it!

That's fine, except for those floppy disk drives which have the notch
upside down! :-(

Crap, yes, that rings a bell - I remember shaving the key off a cable
once for the same reason...

I don't recall destroying any floppies that way though, the cable the
wrong way around just spins the drive up on boot, doesn't do any data
damage as far as I recall.

Doing that has killed a few boot floppies for me, so I guess it may
depend on the make of floppy drive. Thank gawd for boot CDs,
boot USB pendrives, virtual floppies and WinImage is all I can say! ;)

Not so much the make of drive, perhaps, so much as which end of the
cable is reversed. Having the controller (or perhaps both ends) reversed
is what wipes a floppy. Unlike the industry standard straight floppy
disk 34 wire cable which was used with a standard controller which would
allow up to four drives to be daisy chained, the bastardised IBM version
would only work if _both_ ends were correctly plugged in.

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Regards, John.

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