Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754254AbXLAMXz (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:23:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753414AbXLAMXn (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:23:43 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([75.144.35.66]:36226 "EHLO lucidpixels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753239AbXLAMXm (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:23:42 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:23:41 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p34.internal.lan To: Jan Engelhardt 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; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 968 Lines: 31 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. -- 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/