From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 12:46:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA00472 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 12:46:05 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA00437 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 12:45:34 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HV08GDGA8W001IEA@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Thu, 07 Sep 1995 19:37:34 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id TAA00309 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 19:53:40 +0200 Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 19:53:40 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Subject: in situ scsi formatting To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Message-id: <199509071753.TAA00309@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is there a way to low level format a SCSI drive under FreeBSD? I have one drive that has a media error and I don't want to run SCSICNTL.EXE from a DOS diskette. It would be nice to dismount the drive, send it the appropriate scsi commands (scsi) and partition and disklabel it afterwards. Has anyone done so? --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de