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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.




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