Zero filling a hard disk inside FreeBSD

First published at 10:18 UTC on November 17th, 2020.

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This came from interest in testing this 500 GB USB External Hard disks as I kept seeing read errors. Zero filling is the modern equivilant to Low Level formatting done to Old MFM and RLL Hard disks that used seperate controller boards inside 8088 -…

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