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From: "Michael Butler" <imb@asstdc.com.au>
To: "Joerg Wunsch" <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: dead disk
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 17:51:13 -0600
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> > Aug 18 04:34:59 scorn /kernel: sd3(ahc0:3:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:0x50033
> > csi:1,79,7,3b asc:16,0 Data synchronization mark error
> > field replaceable unit: 15
 
> > So is all hope lost for this disk?
 
> Did you turn on automatic error recovery?  It's on mode page 1 (see
> scsi(8)).

Unfortunately, I have a drive at home that desparately needs reformatting ..
worse, the machine is in Australia and I'm in Canada for the short and medium
term .. <sigh> .. can anyone tell me what commands I can throw at scsi(8) to do
this?

	michael