From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 14:19:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B7C16A504 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:19:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@daycos.com) Received: from mail.daycos.com (mail.daycos.com [204.26.70.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC5D43D9A for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:19:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@daycos.com) Received: from localhost (mail.daycos.com [192.168.0.93]) by mail.daycos.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D6B14E588 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:19:13 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daycos.com Received: from mail.daycos.com ([192.168.0.93]) by localhost (mail.daycos.com [192.168.0.93]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9oUfHrWCwbPQ for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:19:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from janus.daycos.com (janus.daycos.com [10.45.12.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EXP1024-RC4-SHA (56/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.daycos.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA5F14D816 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:19:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Strauser Organization: The Day Companies To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:19:04 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44E47092.7050104@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <44E47092.7050104@mawer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608180919.04651.kirk@daycos.com> Subject: Re: The need for initialising disks before use? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:19:24 -0000 On Thursday 17 August 2006 8:35 am, Antony Mawer wrote: > A quick question - is it recommended to initialise disks before using > them to allow the disks to map out any "bad spots" early on? Note: if you once you actually start seeing bad sectors, the drive is almost dead. A drive can remap a pretty large number internally, but once that pool is exhausted (and the number of errors is still growing exponentially), there's not a lot of life left. -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies