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Thank you for the response, fpmurphy. Based on your response, I am assuming that the way to use this disk in the future is to start fresh by formatting and rebuilding partitions?

I really appreciate your response; do you by any chance know where I can find some documentation that supports your assertion that the disk is usable? I would like to bring this information to my trainer. Have you ever heard of anyone else making a claim such as his? I really want to track down some more info on this case but haven't had much luck on my own.

If anyone has any resources describing disk architecture (and its non-volatile nature) I would find them most helpful; I can only seem to find elementary drawings and explanations of the physical disk parts while, based on the training I have received, there is supposedly some sort of software or firmware which allows the system to communicate with the disk and which is able to be deleted inadvertently by inexperienced admins.

Thanks again!

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sylseg-sk-training

sylseg-sk-training(1)						   USER COMMANDS					     sylseg-sk-training(1)

NAME

       sylseg-sk-training - train the statistic for the syllabic segmentation

SYNOPSIS

       sylseg-sk-training [--color] [--dl debug level] [--help] [<input file>]

DESCRIPTION

       The sylabic segmentation is esential for some linguistic or speech recognition applications. Depending on the language either rule based or
       statistical approach is beying used. For Slovak the statistical approach seems to be more suitable.

       sylseg-sk-training creates the necessary data for one of the statistical approaches for	the  syllabic  segmentaion.  The  input  data  are
       expected  to  be word segmented into syllables. The syllabic separator should be "-".  If no input file is specified, the standard input is
       expected.  The output is written in to the file. The filename is input filename with the extension  ".statistics".  If  standard  input	is
       used, then the output filename is syl_output.statistics.

       The design of the sylseg-sk-training is language independent. Theoretically it should work for any language.

OPTIONS

       --color
	      Enable color output.

       --dl   Set  the	debug  level. Control the amount of displayed information The debug level 0 displays nothing. The maximum level 5 displays
	      full debugging report. The default debug level is 1.

       --help display a short help text

EXAMPLES

       Use file aaa.txt as training input and set up debug level to 3:
	      sylseg-sk-training --dl 3 aaa.txt

EXIT STATUS

       sylseg-sk-training returns a zero if the training  succeeds

AUTHOR

       Jozef Ivanecky (dodo (at) kanoistika.sk)

SEE ALSO

       sylseg-sk(1)

version 0.4							 September 9, 2006					     sylseg-sk-training(1)