From: Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@wp.pl>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port)
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:47:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071201174733.646a5c35@absurd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712010722590.28887@p34.internal.lan>
Justin Piszcz said: (by the date of Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:23:41 -0500 (EST))
> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc
>
> 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.
better use badblocks. It writes data, then reads it afterwards:
In this example the data is semi random (quicker than /dev/urandom ;)
badblocks -c 10240 -s -w -t random -v /dev/sdc
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Janek Kozicki |
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-01 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-01 11:26 Kernel 2.6.23.9 / P35 Chipset + WD 750GB Drives (reset port) Justin Piszcz
2007-12-01 12:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-01 12:23 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-12-01 16:47 ` Janek Kozicki [this message]
2007-12-01 16:55 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-12-02 9:11 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-12-02 21:14 ` Janek Kozicki
2007-12-02 21:21 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-12-02 21:25 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-12-02 21:32 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-12-10 8:23 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-01 18:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-10 8:14 ` Tejun Heo
2007-12-13 22:27 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-06 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 22:38 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-12-06 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
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2007-12-01 20:08 ` Robert Hancock
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2007-12-05 1:26 ` Robert Hancock
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