Re: [smartmontools-support] SCSI Error -- Is there a fix?

[Frank J. <ja...@so...>]

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 13:51 -0500, Bruce Allen wrote:

> > Might it not be easier simply to move everything off the drive, reformat,
> > and reload/rebuild?
> 
> Yes.  Just use something like (WARNING -- WIPES DRIVE DATA!!)
> 
>    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
> 
> to write zeros to the device.  You might want to also use the 'direct' 
> option to dd to bypass the OS block layer.

Those sound like "Linuxisms" but I get the idea (I'm on FreeBSD).  Is
there anything special about filling it with zeros, so will any
character do?

And thanks again.

Frank