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From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: More on disklabel woes...
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Hi...

	Having just thought about it, I looked into the scsiformat command
that exists under FreeBSD.

	Doing a 'scsiformat -w sd6' on the QUANTUM LP240S GM240S01X 6.4 drive,
I get:

hub# scsiformat -w sd6
QUANTUM 
LP240S GM240S01X 
6.4 
 
Mode data length:  31 
Medium type:  0 
Device Specific Parameter:  0 
Block descriptor length:  8 
Density code:  0 
Number of blocks:  479350 
Reserved:  0 
Block length:  512 
PS:  0 
Reserved:  0 
Page code:  4 
Page length:  18 
Number of Cylinders:  1818 
Number of Heads:  4 
Starting Cylinder-Write Precompensation:  1818 
Starting Cylinder-Reduced Write Current:  1818 
Drive Step Rate:  0 
Landing Zone Cylinder:  0 
Reserved:  0 
RPL:  0 
Rotational Offset:  0 
Reserved:  0 
Medium Rotation Rate:  0 
Reserved:  0 
Reserved:  0 
 
Three seconds until format begins... Formatting... this may take a while.


	If I do just a 'scsiformat sd5' on the other, identical QUANTUM
drive, I get the same data, except the following two are different:

Starting Cylinder-Write Precompensation:  0 
Starting Cylinder-Reduced Write Current:  1900 


	Does this make any sense to anyone?

Thanks...