[PLUG] Replacing hard drive

[Paul Johnson]

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Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ed Sawicki wrote:
>
>> Do you think it's necessary to use -c on a new drive?
>
> Ed,
>
>   Probably not. But, I just discovered that option and thought it wouldn't
> hurt anything. Does it slow things down a lot? Is it unnecessary because the
> manufacturer already locked out bad bits?

- -c *really* slows things down a lot.  It makes formatting a MS
filesystem seem positively swift by comparison.
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