[rescue] Low-level SCSI formatting.

Mike Meredith mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk
Mon Dec 30 14:17:44 CST 2002


On Monday 30 December 2002 8:08 pm, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Is is possible to low-level format a SCSI drive with either a Sun
> SPARCstation LX (Solaris 7) or an SGI Indigo2 (IRIX 6.5.11)?

There's sformat 
(http://freshmeat.net/redir/sformat/14755/url_tgz/sformat-3.5.tar.gz)

Don't know how effective it is.

> wouldn't fix itself.  I replaced it.  Opinions as to the efficacy of
> low-level formatting in this case solicited, as well.

I've never been keen on re-using disks that have started misbehaving.


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