On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > Can you try "dd oflag=direct if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdb bs=64k"? sorry...meant to type "if=/dev/zero"...I don't recall if /dev/null will work the same. grant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html