Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:50:56 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Eric Sabban <eric@clickrebates.com>, Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks Message-ID: <200003231750.JAA02133@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200003231554.HAA01743@mass.cdrom.com>
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:> Why not? The drives are empty LVD Drives, nothing bad'll happen.
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:Apart from screwing up the factory format.
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:> I mean, it may very well be sysinstall being massively out of sync, but it shouldn't hurt to LL the drives.
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:It should, and will.
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:\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith
I get scared when lay-prorammers talk about Low-Leveling a disk :-).
There are virtually no programmers outside of RAID-land (and those are
usually considered insane anyway :-)) who should ever have to LL a disk.
I think I've LL'd maybe one SCSI disk in the last fifteen years.
That said, today's disks are far less likely to blow up if you LL them
then older (over 7 years) disks since there isn't a clock track any more.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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