Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 03:40:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, Jon Molin <jon.molin@resfeber.se>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new drive Message-ID: <200104080140.DAA21512@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <200104080127.f381Rjq65570@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Apr 7, 2001 07:26:30 pm"
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> 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. do you really need to zero out everything, or just the MBR, or maybe just the first block in the slice ? cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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