Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 08:14:50 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timeout when formatting 9GB Barracuda, scsi errors is missing time Message-ID: <19980302081450.26758@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199803012359.PAA10350@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 03:59:14PM -0800 References: <19980301230652.39518@klemm.gtn.com> <199803012359.PAA10350@dingo.cdrom.com>
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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
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