I normally wouldn't recommend it. But the same situation with a different (not to be
mentioned) OS happened to me.
After hours of being frustrated, I decided the scsi controller went south. A cow-orker
told me to LL the drive,
and voila, magic. These were IBM LVD 10kRPM drives, brand spankin new. I'd recommend
updating sysinstall first, if
that doesn't work, LL the drives.
-eric
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :
> :> Why not? The drives are empty LVD Drives, nothing bad'll happen.
> :
> :Apart from screwing up the factory format.
> :
> :> I mean, it may very well be sysinstall being massively out of sync, but it
>shouldn't hurt to LL the drives.
> :
> :It should, and will.
> :
> :--
> :\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith
>
> I get scared when lay-prorammers talk about Low-Leveling a disk :-).
> There are virtually no programmers outside of RAID-land (and those are
> usually considered insane anyway :-)) who should ever have to LL a disk.
> I think I've LL'd maybe one SCSI disk in the last fifteen years.
>
> That said, today's disks are far less likely to blow up if you LL them
> then older (over 7 years) disks since there isn't a clock track any more.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
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