Re: FYI: RAID5 unusably unstable through 2.6.14

[Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>]

Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> The drive is low level formatted. This resolved the problem you were
> having.
>
>   
Could you define what you mean by "low level format"?  AFAIK, IDE drives 
do not provide a command to low level format them ( like MFM and RLL 
drives required ), so the best you can do is write zeroes to all sectors 
on the disk. 

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