From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 18:54: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.129.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AFB737BCD0 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE136E41F8 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA89698; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:01:41 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:01:40 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Tuley Brian W Contr ASC/YCOA Cc: "FreeBSD (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Formatting a new hard drive w/ FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <8BCC2A2D979ED31189460000F801825D40FD1C@fszhtv3b.wpafb.af.mil> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Tuley Brian W Contr ASC/YCOA wrote: > I have a 9 Gig hard drive that has been degaussed and I was wanting to > find out if you can the use the scsiformat -w command to complete a > low-level format the drive when I install FreeBSD? No. Do it before you install. Your controller may have a builtin format program... > > Brian Tuley, Contractor > Sumaria Systems, Inc. > MIS Dept. > 656-9344 > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message