Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 01:43:55 -0500 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reformatting a 520-byte-per-sector drive Message-ID: <37DF402B.BEA5086E@airnet.net> References: <199909150535.XAA40299@panzer.kdm.org>
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Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > As of now, it is running this command. Until the machine hangs... (I > > have a bad widdle 1542CF. But three good 1542Bs. Well, the CF is the > > only one with a BIOS more intelligent than mud. :-) > > I'm not sure I understand. Is the drive doing anything? Does the > machine/card normally hang? This card will crash any machine. It's known to be broken, but it gets the job done sometimes. I usually just use a 1542B instead. It's less painful. Mind, I'm not saying _all_ 1542CF's are broken, just the one I have in my possession. > I would expect the blocksize change to go pretty quickly, unless the drive > automatically does a format or something similar when you change the > blocksize. (With other drives, you change the blocksize and then format.) > > Can you tell if the drive is doing anything? It doesn't have a led output, so no. I can hear what I think is accessing, but it may just be the bearings. > The other problem you may have with this is that if the drive does format > itself when you change the blocksize, the timeout for the mode select is > likely too short. In fact, the default timeout for generic SCSI commands > like the one you issued is 5 seconds, which is way too short for a format. I'm chasing them on the command line ; one right after the other. (That's not _just_ a grammatical example!) So, like the energizer bunny, it keeps right on going, formatting. -- Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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