From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Sep 15 0:23:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D3314BCA for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-175.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.175]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id CAA23644; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:23:37 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37DF4978.653EF779@airnet.net> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:23:36 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reformatting a 520-byte-per-sector drive References: <199909150648.AAA40597@panzer.kdm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > 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. While I do have a copy of the src cvsup'd to -current, my machine is not even -stable. If I could apply the patches against 3.2-RELEASE or the upcoming 3.3-RELEASE, I'd be happy to see. But I've got to change the card in that machine first.... :-) > > Ahh, okay. I thought that the mode select was hanging somehow. But, of > course, the format should take a while. I'm curious to see whether the > sector size change will stick after the format. > No, I checked that first; I got a prompt right after I sent the command. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message