[SOLVED] Centos 6 - Intel? ICH7R SATA Problem

[pschaff]

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AlcSilian wrote:
... I still waiting to finish the dd format.
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If you are waiting something is wrong. There is no formatting involved, just wiping the first few sectors of the disk so it looks fresh. That should be a very fast operation and return immediately.

[AlcSilian]

mmmm..... without count=64 it doesn't show anything but hdd is working...

[TrevorH]

Without count=64 it'll be writing 200GB of data until it hits the end of the disk...

[pschaff]

Yup. Just kill with Ctrl-C and reboot. Should have already wiped plenty.

[AlcSilian]

I will go to the NOC now and try it. I will come back with an update shortly.

[AlcSilian]

Hello. After hours of waiting and lot of white hair I finaly manage it.

So for everyone that get this error that metadata is not rec. by the installer use this without count.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

Works like a charm.... Thank you Moderator for helping me out with this.

[pschaff]

You are welcome, and thanks for reporting back. Marking this thread [SOLVED] for posterity.