Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)

[Justin Piszcz]

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.
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