Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945928AbWBCTro (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:47:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945929AbWBCTro (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:47:44 -0500 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([69.44.168.233]:54801 "EHLO iradimed.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945925AbWBCTrn (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:47:43 -0500 Message-ID: <43E3B32C.2080806@cfl.rr.com> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:46:52 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Salyzyn, Mark" CC: Martin Drab , Bill Davidsen , Cynbe ru Taren , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: FYI: RAID5 unusably unstable through 2.6.14 References: <547AF3BD0F3F0B4CBDC379BAC7E4189F0217F765@otce2k03.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <547AF3BD0F3F0B4CBDC379BAC7E4189F0217F765@otce2k03.adaptec.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Feb 2006 19:48:17.0098 (UTC) FILETIME=[C6ECCAA0:01C628FA] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.2.0.1122-3.52.1006-14245.000 X-TM-AS-Result: No--1.300000-5.000000-31 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 588 Lines: 17 Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > The drive is low level formatted. This resolved the problem you were > having. > > Could you define what you mean by "low level format"? AFAIK, IDE drives do not provide a command to low level format them ( like MFM and RLL drives required ), so the best you can do is write zeroes to all sectors on the disk. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/