Darrell,
Thanks for your help. I will check out your suggestions at the weekend. Do
you have any experience with the (apparent) losing of space when using RAID 0?
Des
At 21:57 9/7/2001, Darrell May wrote:
>Des Dougan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > I realized this was because it seemed to have booted the Mandrake
> > 2.2.14 kernel
><snip>
>
>Hi Des,
>
>Don't trust operating systems to be able to completely remove partition
>tables and MBR. I recommend performing a 'zero fill' on drives when
>switching O/S to completely overwrite/remove all hard drive information.
>
>For scsi drives this may be possible via the scsi controller bios.
>Alternately download your hard drive manufacturers version of DiskManager
>to perform the 'zero fill'.
>
>Regards,
>
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Des
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