Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:17:44 -0700 (PDT) From: WALT PAWLEY <wump@mail.sorcom.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How do I format SCSI drives on Compaq Proliant 4500? Message-ID: <200109120717.AAA55164@mail.sorcom.com>
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Recently I've gotten my hands on some old Compaq Proliant 4500 boxes which use the ida driver to access their main SCSI hard disks. After considerable pain, FreeBSD got installed (Compaq makes this easy ... the pain, i mean). In the course of events, it became clear that the hard drives needed low-level formatting. Since i am familiar with doing this via Apple Macs, i figured i'd just yard the drives out of their carriers and stick them in my old external hard disk box and format them. No problem. And it wasn't for the first two drives. They used the 100 mill center square pin connectors with which I've SCSI'd aplenty on Macs. The rest of the drives use a different connector which I have no alternative equipment for. So, I started researching how to low-level format them using FreeBSD. Ever since, my head has been spinning with copious quantities of documentation that either seems to make little sense, or, when applied, does not work because of changes between the version of the document and the version of FreeBSD. IMHO, this ought to be a LOT simpler but, then, I'm getting old and have more trouble reading between the lines than I used to, I guess. So, the question: How does one low-level format drives under FreeBSD 4.3 on a Compaq Proliant 4500? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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