I was playing around with a test system and tried your method with one drive rather than just zeroing the superblock as Neil Brown suggested. It might just be something flaky with my scsi drive, but I couldn't fdisk the thing afterwards, kept getting scsi parity errors when I tried to write a new partition table. I tried doing low level formats with the Adaptec controller, no luck. I tried scsitools, etc., and eventually had to get Seagate's seatools to do a low-level format in order to be able to use fdisk again (I also tried cfdisk, etc.). Not saying your method wouldn't work for most, but thought I should note what happened to me. Regards, Jeff At 10:54 AM 15/05/2002 +0200, Gernot A. Weber wrote: >Hi, > >try a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda" if your disk is the first SCSI disk. >Replace sda with the right devive name. Don't enter a partition number - >just the device name. dd should overwrite the MBR and the partition table. > >Good luck > > Gernot Weber > >-- >Gernot A. Weber >http://www.tux-web.de > >Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff >on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it. > > Linus Torvalds, after a hard drive crash > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
