Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:35:27 -0400 (EDT) | | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | | Subject | Re: sector size of 2068? |
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On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > In the SCSI controller BIOS setup, low-level format the drive using > > your new controller. The drive was apparently low-level formatted on > > on different controller, or simply contains a manufacturers' test > > pattern. If you don't have a controller that shows a startup > > window that says "^B or ^A to enter setup.." or something like > > that, you need to format the drive on some machine that does. > > Wouldn't `scsiformat' utility from 'scsiinfo' package be sufficient for > this task? This would allow disks to be formatted without troubles > regardless of the firmware capabilities. > I didn't know it even existed! If there is some way to send 'raw' commands to SCSI from user-mode, all you have to do is execute the 'format unit' command and wait until it's done. Default parameters including 0 for an interleave (which means default) will create a workable (perhaps not optimum) disk.
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