From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 7 18:36:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-1242.charter-stl.com [24.217.116.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8924F37B422 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 18:36:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C1CFDA91E; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:35:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:35:18 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: Warner Losh Cc: Andrew Hesford , Jon Molin , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new drive Message-ID: <20010407203518.A59413@cec.wustl.edu> References: <20010406110817.B29989@cec.wustl.edu> <3ACD6E95.9AF73435@resfeber.se> <20010406030353.A28772@cec.wustl.edu> <3ACD7B94.300B2D49@resfeber.se> <20010406110817.B29989@cec.wustl.edu> <200104080127.f381Rjq65570@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104080127.f381Rjq65570@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:26:30PM -0600 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:26:30PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. Why is it important to zero out the first cylinder? I can understand wiping the first sector to destroy the MBR (although I don't see why this matters, either), but what makes the first cylinder special? -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message