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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Disk drive question
Date: 29 Jun 1997 17:07:09 GMT
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crs@quail.swcp.com (Charlie Sorsby) wrote:

> Now common sense tells me that that should not be a problem and
> that reformatting should cure that.  But I've been burned by
> believing common sense before....

If you spell `reformat' like `/sbin/disklabel', then you're right.

Apart from a bunch of bad blocks, there's normally no reason to run
/sbin/scsiformat on any of your disks.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)