Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 13:34:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), daren@sefcik.cc, obrien@NUXI.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: low level format--how?? Message-ID: <199902072134.NAA07489@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Feb 1999 12:24:23 MST." <199902071924.MAA63805@panzer.plutotech.com>
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> > The correct answer to "how do you low-level format a SCSI disk under > > FreeBSD" is "if you have to ask, you SHOULD NOT be doing it". It is > > almost never the right thing to do. > > In his case, I think it was. The "medium format corrupted" error message > can generally be fixed by low-level formatting the disk. Hmm, mea culpa; I didn't see/register that message. It would, indeed, indicate that a low-level format was required. Daren, my apologies. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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