From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Sep 15 3:21: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F50614C30 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:21:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id TAA40481; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:50:51 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:50:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Kris Kirby , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reformatting a 520-byte-per-sector drive Message-ID: <19990915195051.H30655@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37DF402B.BEA5086E@airnet.net> <199909150648.AAA40597@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199909150648.AAA40597@panzer.kdm.org>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 12:48:26AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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