Re: FYI: RAID5 unusably unstable through 2.6.14
From: Phillip Susi
Date: Fri Feb 03 2006 - 14:45:57 EST
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.
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