From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 9:51: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A0D37BD13; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:50:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA02133; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:50:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:50:56 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200003231750.JAA02133@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mike Smith Cc: Eric Sabban , Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks References: <200003231554.HAA01743@mass.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :> Why not? The drives are empty LVD Drives, nothing bad'll happen. : :Apart from screwing up the factory format. : :> I mean, it may very well be sysinstall being massively out of sync, but it shouldn't hurt to LL the drives. : :It should, and will. : :-- :\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith I get scared when lay-prorammers talk about Low-Leveling a disk :-). There are virtually no programmers outside of RAID-land (and those are usually considered insane anyway :-)) who should ever have to LL a disk. I think I've LL'd maybe one SCSI disk in the last fifteen years. That said, today's disks are far less likely to blow up if you LL them then older (over 7 years) disks since there isn't a clock track any more. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message