Quenda wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to write specific, non-repeating, patterns of data to specific physical locations of the hard drive, filling the whole platter.
What would be the easiest way to do this? software suggestions?
There is no requirement to keep data, or for the drive to be usable after writing.
Assume a modern SMR Drive is the target.
Cheers
if you want to write to
physical sectors in contrast with logical sectors aka LBAs then it is all vendor dependent(there is no available software for this) and you won't be able to write to the
whole platter, because some areas are not meant to be written in.
If you are talking about LBAs then there are plenty of tools for that, you can use Linux's dd for example.