From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Apr 24 3:54:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2873137B422 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 03:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id MAA04423 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:54:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3OAoBP38762; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:50:11 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:50:11 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200104241050.f3OAoBP38762@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <20010423181646.A94378@panzer.kdm.org> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: is this device bad? X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.scsi To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Kenneth D. Merry" 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 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message