Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:50:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reformatting a 520-byte-per-sector drive Message-ID: <19990915195051.H30655@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199909150648.AAA40597@panzer.kdm.org>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 12:48:26AM -0600 References: <37DF402B.BEA5086E@airnet.net> <199909150648.AAA40597@panzer.kdm.org>
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On Wednesday, 15 September 1999 at 0:48:26 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > 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. How do you get this info? I thought the drive went catatonic until it was finished. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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