Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:13:42 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port) |
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On Dec 1 2007 06:26, Justin Piszcz wrote: > I ran the following: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde > > (as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk)
Why would you care about what's on the disk? fdisk, mkfs and the day-to-day operation will overwrite it _anyway_.
(If you think the disk is not empty, you should look at it and copy off all usable warez beforehand :-)
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