Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:48:26 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: kris@airnet.net (Kris Kirby) Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reformatting a 520-byte-per-sector drive Message-ID: <199909150648.AAA40597@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <37DF402B.BEA5086E@airnet.net> from Kris Kirby at "Sep 15, 1999 01:43:55 am"
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Kris Kirby wrote... > Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > 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. One other thing -- with my new format patches (the URL I sent out earlier), you'll know whether it's formatting or not, since you'll see the percentage done. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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