From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Sep 14 16: 2:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C539714F15 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:02:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA34009; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:32:02 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:32:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Kris Kirby , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reformatting a 520-byte-per-sector drive Message-ID: <19990915083202.B30655@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990914124327.E10106@freebie.lemis.com> <199909141845.MAA36540@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199909141845.MAA36540@panzer.kdm.org>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:45:32PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 14 September 1999 at 12:45:32 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote... >> On Tuesday, 7 September 1999 at 23:34:08 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >>> I think the patches should apply okay to -current or -stable, but if they >>> don't it shouldn't be too hard to get them to apply. >>> >>> One warning, though -- in your situation, you'll probably want to use the >>> -q option to camcontrol format. The reason is, without "quiet" turned on, >>> camcontrol will do an inquiry on your disk, which may nullify any block >>> setting you just made, if your disk behaves anything like Greg's Seagate. >> >> Are you planning to commit these patches? I'd think it's worth it. > > Well, I'll probably have to to get any more feedback. I want to go through > the patches one more time and clean things up before I do that, though. > > Maybe if I let them sit in -current for a couple of months, I'll get some > feedback. That's what it's for :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message