From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Oct 14 06:25:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA27022 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 06:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA27016 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 06:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id IAA23698; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:21:41 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199610141321.IAA23698@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Buslogic controller, Sync mode & a SCSI disk error To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:21:40 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com In-Reply-To: <199610122055.WAA10119@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 12, 96 10:55:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As Joe Greco wrote: > > Hi Rod, > > Not me :), but... :-) > > Is there a good tool to do this sort of stuff under FreeBSD (besides doing > > it by hand with the scsi command)? > > > > The NCR controllers in use around here do not have a built in BIOS utility > > (like the Adaptecs do) to do low level formatting and verification/bad > > block remapping. > > What's wrong with scsiformat(8)? It used to be in the 2.2 branch for > quite some time, but also finally found its way into 2.1.5R. 1) Because I didn't know it was there; 2) Because generally I am more interested in a utility to do verification and bad block remapping. Usually by the time I decide to low level a drive, it is being swapped out for a new unit that has already been burned in for a while... but it is nice to know that a utility is available. :-) That will save some time when I am setting up new systems. Any ideas on a verification/bad block remapper utility? Would it be hard to do? ... JG