From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 8 18:40:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B4637B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C1043E64 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0460.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.205] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Rjzk-0000Bf-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 21:40:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2A3EF5.9BAAE12A@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 18:40:05 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Luigi Rizzo , Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > According to the specs I had access to at Whistle they were pretty much > the same low level device with different interface logic. > The ATA drives I have seen had a format capacity > just like their scsi cousins, just hard to find. Actually, if you read through the thread, you will see the format track was taken out of the ATA specification. You have to know a magic incantation to talk to the drive firmware (hence my vendor tool recomendation, and my question "Who is the manufacturer?"). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message