From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Apr 24 9:55:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A6137B424 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:55:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA99580; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:55:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:55:45 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Todd Cohen Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is this device bad? Message-ID: <20010424105545.A99553@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20010424102410.A99321@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from cohentl@clarkson.edu on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:24:50PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:24:50 -0400, Todd Cohen wrote: > Ok.. how long should that format take? it's a 9.x gig drive and that > format took about 2 seconds... It should have taken a lot longer than that. Try this instead: camcontrol format da1 -v -w That will issue a non-immediate format command. It may be that your drive doesn't like the immediate format command but isn't returning an error. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message