From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Apr 24 11:44: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mail.clarkson.edu (mail.clarkson.edu [128.153.4.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9712F37B422 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:44:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cohentl@clarkson.edu) Received: (qmail 5828 invoked by uid 0); 24 Apr 2001 18:44:01 -0000 Received: from crux.clarkson.edu (128.153.4.132) by mail.clarkson.edu with SMTP; 24 Apr 2001 18:44:01 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:44:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Cohen To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is this device bad? In-Reply-To: <20010424105545.A99553@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I ran that command... it sat at "Fromatting..." for about 20-30 minutes or so.. then had the following error: lizard# camcontrol format da1 -v -w You are about to REMOVE ALL DATA from the following device: pass1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device pass1: Serial Number 00337771 pass1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8) Are you SURE you want to do this? (yes/no) yes Current format timeout is 10800 seconds Enter new timeout in seconds or press return to keep the current timeout [10800] Formatting...camcontrol: error sending format command CAM status is 0xb lizard# -Todd On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > 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 > __________________________________________________________________________ ICMP: The protocol that goes PING! I like angles, but only to a degree. cthread. cthread_fork(). Fork, thread, fork! Black holes suck. http://wckn.clarkson.edu/~cohentl/ Real_men_don't_need_spacebars. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message