Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:19:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE drives doing BBR? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010041719140.60871-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010041702350.55166-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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> > Or do I just write nul's to the block or 0's, and it's supposed to do it > > automatically? or do I just punt. > > 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=4k' works great; takes about an hour to > scrub the entire disk. Run until clean. Running it right now in fact. Err, Umm, I wouldn't assume that drives always know that writes have failed. Do a read pass too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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