Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:37:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com Subject: Re: Buslogic controller, Sync mode & a SCSI disk error Message-ID: <199610141537.KAA24323@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199610141517.IAA13017@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Oct 14, 96 08:17:21 am
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> Not really, scsi(8) was flushed out at my request and expense to replace > just 1 of the tools I had to run under DOS frequently, several of the > other tools I use less often and have not sought out a FreeBSD replacement > for. > > The ``tool'' I usually use for running a ``verify with remap'' pass is the > aha2940 BIOS lately, since I can just pop the drive on a test setup and > fix it. That is nice now show me how to do it on a machine that is 30 miles away please :-) :-) > > > > > > 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. > > scsiformat(8) is destructive only, I can't fix a drive full of data > with it. :-(. How hard would it be to extend it so that it does > what the aha2940 ``verify'' mode does? Perhaps even with a nicer interface :-) Personally I am quite fond of the "analyze" feature available in Sun format, but that is also a fair amount of additional work. ... JG
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