Re: Does solaris require disks to be zeroed before using
From: Beardy (beardy_at_beardy.net)
Date: 09/25/04
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 06:17:02 +0000
Chris Newport wrote:
> On Thursday 23 September 2004 4:10 am in comp.sys.sun.admin David A.Lethe
> <davidATsantools.com> wrote:
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>>This is causing some issues at our company, and we can't get any
>>definitive answers. Is there any requirement, or even best-practices
>>policies that SCSI and/or fibre channel disk drives need to have all
>>zeros written to them before partitioning and building a file system
>>on them?
>
>
> The only case where Solaris needs a disk to be zeroed is
> where an IDE disk has been installed on a system/OS version
> which does not support large drives. In this case only the
> boot block needs to be zeroed.
> This was a common issue with the Ultra5/10 when a user installed
> a large disk which was not correctly recognised.
>
Chris, I'm curious - didn't they just patch/upgrade the OS to support
the large disk? I can't see how zeroing the boot block would help...
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