FreeBSD text based games - Dungeoncrawl - My test box

[Allen]

Jayton Garnett wrote:
> Sounds like you probably caused the damage to the disk by powering down 
> while it was trying to write to the disk and if you 'smashed' the power 
> button it's possible you hit the case hard enough to rumble the drive 
> causing physical damage ;)  of course it's also possible the EXE was 
> written to change the geom of the drive at chip level.
> 
> If you're really interested you can reverse engineer it to see exactly 
> what it does ;)

The Power button on that machine, was one of those oldschool ones that 
actually cut power, so I didn't have to push it hard or anything, and I 
know it didn't damage the disk itself, because like I said, it still 
worked, just completely screwed the thing. I'm not sure about the geom 
part, but shouldn't Fdisk be able to change that when you do a fresh 
format of the drive using the DOS version AND the Linux tools to try and 
format?

the drive did format but for some reason it said it was really small 
after. It was odd.

I can't reverse engineer since my coding skills are basically hello 
world in everything except HTML and Perl, so not much that would 
otherwise help.

Anyway, the only one I hadn't thought of was the geom part. I was 
thinking about finding an old crap drive and putting Windows 95 on it to 
try out that floppy again and see if now I could fix it since my skills 
in computing have grown quite a lot since that time.

-Allen