Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:19:04 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@daycos.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The need for initialising disks before use? Message-ID: <200608180919.04651.kirk@daycos.com> In-Reply-To: <44E47092.7050104@mawer.org> References: <44E47092.7050104@mawer.org>
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On Thursday 17 August 2006 8:35 am, Antony Mawer wrote: > A quick question - is it recommended to initialise disks before using > them to allow the disks to map out any "bad spots" early on? Note: if you once you actually start seeing bad sectors, the drive is almost dead. A drive can remap a pretty large number internally, but once that pool is exhausted (and the number of errors is still growing exponentially), there's not a lot of life left. -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies
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