Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 04:51:29 -0700 (PDT) From: bmk@dtr.com To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Cc: bmk@dtr.com, john@starfire.mn.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: formatting a scsi disk Message-ID: <199505011151.EAA14572@dtr.com> In-Reply-To: <199505011112.HAA20810@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at May 1, 95 07:12:14 am
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> bmk@dtr.com writes: > > > > Can't get it to work here, any clues? > It turns out that commands with no data have never worked via "scsi" > (yikes). That is fixed in -current, and I'm on to two new problems: > 1. We need to be able to specify the timeout (the default is 2 > seconds, which is not going to work well for formatting your disks) > 2. We need to account for disks that can't be opened by the disk driver > before formatting. So... I guess my next question is how can I reformat a problematic SCSI disk since I'm running SNAP-0412 and not current. The controller is a Buslogic 445 - and they don't provide a SCSI format utility. If it's necessary, I can format the disk on an Adaptec 1542 (which does have a formatter), but I'd rather not do that, since it'd involve disassembling two machines.
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