If the drive shows 'frozen' you must first The parameter is a capital 'i', not a lowercase 'l', just in case theįont is ambiguous. You want to low-level format is '/dev/sda' and that you have 'hdparm' Under unixoid systems you can do it with 'hdparm'. This is a copy of the answer, current as of Jas provided by no.human.being et al,
To find out how to do this on Linux, read this hdparm tutorial on , A Low Level Format (LLF) is an instruction sent to the disk. llformat is just a (misleading) password. Edit: This answer is about ATA Secure Erase.
