From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 7 13:39:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18594 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:39:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles235.castles.com [208.214.165.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18515; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:38:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07489; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:34:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902072134.NAA07489@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" 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?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 Feb 1999 12:24:23 MST." <199902071924.MAA63805@panzer.plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 13:34:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message