From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Mar 2 06:45:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22998 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 06:45:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22982 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 06:45:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id PAA25085; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:15:06 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA11505; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 08:14:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980302081450.26758@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 08:14:50 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Mike Smith Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timeout when formatting 9GB Barracuda, scsi errors is missing time References: <19980301230652.39518@klemm.gtn.com> <199803012359.PAA10350@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199803012359.PAA10350@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 03:59:14PM -0800 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 03:59:14PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > No. I'll say it again; unless you *must* reformat, don't. > Reformatting will degrade the quality of the entire disk. So doing a verify is the only recommended action ... Hmm, ok. Thanks for stating this out. 'til now this was unknown to me and I think to many other people as well. Everybody I know tells you, that preformatting a disk is nearly the first action you should do prior installing an OS ... -- Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message