Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 18:40:05 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. Message-ID: <3D2A3EF5.9BAAE12A@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081516390.29644-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > According to the specs I had access to at Whistle they were pretty much > the same low level device with different interface logic. > The ATA drives I have seen had a format capacity > just like their scsi cousins, just hard to find. Actually, if you read through the thread, you will see the format track was taken out of the ATA specification. You have to know a magic incantation to talk to the drive firmware (hence my vendor tool recomendation, and my question "Who is the manufacturer?"). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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