From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 12 1:34:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5EB37B40D for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f8C8YM730712; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "WALT PAWLEY" , Subject: RE: How do I format SCSI drives on Compaq Proliant 4500? Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:34:22 -0700 Message-ID: <004201c13b65$b902f900$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <200109120717.AAA55164@mail.sorcom.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----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