Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

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On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:


On Dec 1 2007 06:26, Justin Piszcz wrote:
I ran the following:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde

(as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk)

Why would you care about what's on the disk? fdisk, mkfs and
the day-to-day operation will overwrite it _anyway_.

(If you think the disk is not empty, you should look at it
and copy off all usable warez beforehand :-)


The purpose is with any new disk its good to write to all the blocks and let the drive to all of the re-mapping before you put 'real' data on it. Let it crap out or fail before I put my data on it.

Justin.
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