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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:50:11 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is this device bad?
Message-ID:  <200104241050.f3OAoBP38762@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10104232001350.18868-100000@isis.aoc.clarkson.edu> <20010423181646.A94378@panzer.kdm.org>

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"Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> wrote:

> It might be, although when I've seen 'medium format corrupted'
> errors before, they're sometimes fixable by low-level formatting the
> disk.

`Medium format corrupted' is normally issued if a previous `format
unit' operation had been aborted.  Reformatting should help (unless
the `format unit' operation itself ends up in another error, of
course).

-- 
cheers, J"org               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
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