From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Oct 18 04:51:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA13376 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 04:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA13366 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 04:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id NAA21499; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 13:50:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA16272; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 13:34:49 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971018133448.KA36748@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 13:34:48 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: paulo@nlink.com.br (Paulo Fragoso) Subject: Re: Formating HD SCSI. References: <19971017084719.CU29767@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Paulo Fragoso on Oct 17, 1997 10:11:50 -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paulo Fragoso wrote: > > Again, what fixation errors? We need SCSI error messages in order to > > help you. > > Nothing works, I have to hardware reset. This is happening when I format > another HD in FBSD running in multi-user mode. When I boot my ssytem in > single user mode it's work fine! This sounds like a screwed SCSI bus configuration (mistermination or such). scsiformat itself does nothing very magic, it simply issues a single SCSI command (FORMAT UNIT), and waits for up to two hours until completion. Again, without any console messages or such, we are almost helpless here. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)