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Date:      Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:34:49 -0500
From:      Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: scsiformat
Message-ID:  <38938729.5B30B5BF@bellatlantic.net>
References:  <200001292055.VAA31117@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> I have a block on a SCSI disk (Fujitsu M2954S-512 )
> which I cannot write to - fsck hangs eternally.
> 
> Besides from trying the SCSICNTL utility from Adaptec
> (which I had to boot off of a DOS floppy) is
> there a way of formatting a drive from being
> booted under FreeBSD? E.g. by sending a sequence of
> approriate commands to the scsi bus?

Yes, you can send the SCSI format command to the disk.
The document describing the SCSI commands probably
still can be found at the Symbios ftp site (or ask me,
I can send you a copy I made from there - should be
about 300K compressed).

-SB


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