Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:34:22 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "WALT PAWLEY" <wump@mail.sorcom.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How do I format SCSI drives on Compaq Proliant 4500? Message-ID: <004201c13b65$b902f900$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200109120717.AAA55164@mail.sorcom.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of WALT PAWLEY >Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:18 AM > >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? > Boot into FreeBSD, and make sure that your disk drives are recognized by the ida driver, then issue the command /sbin/camcontrol format [device id] [generic args] [command args] Look up the options for this command in the FreeBSD man pages. If you have no FreeBSD system then you can access the man pages here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi I don't know if camcontrol is on the kern.flp installation floppy. Note that many SCSI drives when they get the FORMAT_MEDIA scsi command simply do nothing for a few minutes and then return with a successful completion. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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