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Date:      Sun, 07 Feb 1999 13:34:00 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), daren@sefcik.cc, obrien@NUXI.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: low level format--how?? 
Message-ID:  <199902072134.NAA07489@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Feb 1999 12:24:23 MST." <199902071924.MAA63805@panzer.plutotech.com> 

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> > The correct answer to "how do you low-level format a SCSI disk under 
> > FreeBSD" is "if you have to ask, you SHOULD NOT be doing it".  It is 
> > almost never the right thing to do.
> 
> In his case, I think it was.  The "medium format corrupted" error message
> can generally be fixed by low-level formatting the disk.

Hmm, mea culpa; I didn't see/register that message.  It would, indeed, 
indicate that a low-level format was required.  Daren, my apologies.

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