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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Adding a new drive
In-Reply-To: <200104080127.f381Rjq65570@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh
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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 03:40:04 +0200 (CEST)
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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

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