From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 29 16:27:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90FB1530F for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 16:27:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-117-158.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.158]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA25854; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:27:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38938729.5B30B5BF@bellatlantic.net> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:34:49 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsiformat References: <200001292055.VAA31117@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I have a block on a SCSI disk (Fujitsu M2954S-512 ) > which I cannot write to - fsck hangs eternally. > > Besides from trying the SCSICNTL utility from Adaptec > (which I had to boot off of a DOS floppy) is > there a way of formatting a drive from being > booted under FreeBSD? E.g. by sending a sequence of > approriate commands to the scsi bus? Yes, you can send the SCSI format command to the disk. The document describing the SCSI commands probably still can be found at the Symbios ftp site (or ask me, I can send you a copy I made from there - should be about 300K compressed). -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message