• zaknenouOPEnglish
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    thank you! I think this is what needed to explore
    It is not my level to edit these things, I’m just Linux newbie exploring the possibilities.

    But I still can’t wrap my head over dd not being able to wipe a storage device out, despite being described as a “low level tool that can write zeroes to targets” in the discussion I viewed online.

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      The bios isn’t like a regular storage device presented to the kernel for mounting.

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      Dd can’t overwrite a burned cdr either. If the thing you wanna mess with is read only there’s no way to use it as a dd of.

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        but CD-R aren’t rewrite_able because of their physical property not because protected

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          that’s true, but in both cases the ability to write data simply isn’t there.