[rescue] fx a large drive under IRIX 6.5

[Caleb Shay]

Is there source for sformat somewhere?  If so, I'll build you a mips3 
version.

Caleb

Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

>Caleb Shay says ...
>[I said]
>  
>
>>>I've got fx doing that on one of the disks, but either it's hung or it
>>>doesn't give progress reports.
>>>      
>>>
>>I recently exercised a 16G drive under 6.5 on an Octane.  It does NOT
>>give a progress status.  It also told me it would take about 6 hours, in
>>reality it took closer to 45 minutes.
>>    
>>
>
>Right.  fx's format module gave no progress information and ran to
>completion in a reasonable amount of time.  Unfortunately, it didn't fix the
>problem.  The 516-byte sectors were still 516 bytes long....
>
>Now, I've got a copy of sformat, but it's mips-4 and I need mips-3.
>
>The fun never ends.
>
>-Shel
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