From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 7 18:28:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2FC837B506 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 18:28:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f381Rjq65570; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 19:27:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200104080127.f381Rjq65570@harmony.village.org> To: Andrew Hesford Subject: Re: Adding a new drive Cc: Jon Molin , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Apr 2001 11:08:17 CDT." <20010406110817.B29989@cec.wustl.edu> References: <20010406110817.B29989@cec.wustl.edu> <3ACD6E95.9AF73435@resfeber.se> <20010406030353.A28772@cec.wustl.edu> <3ACD7B94.300B2D49@resfeber.se> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 19:26:30 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010406110817.B29989@cec.wustl.edu> Andrew Hesford writes: : Hrm... I'm sorry then. I have no idea why the Handbook asks you to zero : out the device, it consumes a lot of time and really isn't necessary. I : wonder if that could be the source of your problem. The handbook should say that only the first cylendar (usually 1M) should be zeroed. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message