Re: 2.0.27: Empty harddisk kills kernel

Hadmut Danisch (Hadmut.Danisch@ira.uka.de)
15 Jan 1997 10:18:20 GMT


In <Pine.LNX.3.91.970114141451.32249C-100000@zeus.webcentric.net> "Daniel G. Linder" <dlinder@webcentric.net> writes:

>What happens if you use another controller with this drive? Was the
>drive "zeroed out" by doing "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX ..." or was it
>"from the factory"?

I didn't check another controller and the drive was erased
by cat /dev/zero >/dev/sda because it contained rubbish from an
earlier use.

Hadmut