So, I've been clearing some old drives which had bad sectors to just sanitize them. A command I've often used to clear drives with bad sectors is:
T>m0,4,2,,,0,0,22
Which I started using (with good results) after seeing it used in MRT's menu for drive refurbishing.
Normally, when I've done this I ended up with a blank drive and most of the bad sectors remapped. But, this time, I was surprised to find that instead of a blank drive, the drive is now filled with what looks like HDD firmware code as you can see here:
If I wasn't about to semi-retire from this business, it might be interesting to spend some time analyzing what it dumped here. A lot looks like plain-text code that might be human interpretable.
T>m0,4,2,,,0,0,22
Which I started using (with good results) after seeing it used in MRT's menu for drive refurbishing.
Normally, when I've done this I ended up with a blank drive and most of the bad sectors remapped. But, this time, I was surprised to find that instead of a blank drive, the drive is now filled with what looks like HDD firmware code as you can see here:
If I wasn't about to semi-retire from this business, it might be interesting to spend some time analyzing what it dumped here. A lot looks like plain-text code that might be human interpretable.
