Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754083AbXLAMN5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:13:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753030AbXLAMNo (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:13:44 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:33936 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752928AbXLAMNn (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:13:43 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:13:42 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Justin Piszcz cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@solarrain.com Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 21 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 :-) -- 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/