From owner-aic7xxx Thu Jan 29 15:02:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11421 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:02:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx) Received: from tebbens.com (tebbens.com [205.232.27.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11380 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 15:02:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matthew@tebbens.com) Received: from localhost by tebbens.com with smtp id m0xy2yf-000NU4C (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Thu, 29 Jan 1998 18:02:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 18:02:33 -0500 (EST) From: matthew tebbens To: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: low level format Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Regarding the 2940 and others... When my system boots with my 2940, I can go into the 2940 menu system and low level format my scsi drives. Is it bad to low level format my scsi drives ? Basically, what would be the reason someone would want to low-level format a scsi drive ? Thanks, Matthew