[rescue] help reformatting a disk needed

rescue at sunhelp.org rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Mar 27 12:20:09 CST 2003


> i have an ibm DCAS04F 4.5gig hard drive, 50pin, scsi, ...which was
> formatted with block size 520. i need to reformat it to 512 size
> blocks. 

I strongly recommend that you check out SCSITool (www.nu2.nu), which
requires an x86 box with a supported SCSI adapter, and a bootable
DOS floppy which can be made on a Win9x box.  It's free and it should
be able to do this--feel free to contact me offlist if you need
more help getting it working.

If anyone *does* have the magic recipe to get Solaris "format" to
do this, I'm all ears...never worked for me.

  --Rip


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