Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:23:41 -0500 (EST) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port) |
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On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 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 :-) >
The purpose is with any new disk its good to write to all the blocks and let the drive to all of the re-mapping before you put 'real' data on it. Let it crap out or fail before I put my data on it.
Justin.
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