From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 1 07:05:30 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA24775 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 May 1995 07:05:30 -0700 Received: from ns1.win.net (ns1.win.net [204.215.209.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA24768 for ; Mon, 1 May 1995 07:05:18 -0700 Received: (from bugs@localhost) by ns1.win.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA02632 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 May 1995 10:06:57 -0400 From: Mark Hittinger Message-Id: <199505011406.KAA02632@ns1.win.net> Subject: Re: formatting a scsi disk (fwd) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 10:06:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 546 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > It turns out that commands with no data have never worked via "scsi" > (yikes). That is fixed in -current, and I'm on to two new problems: > > 1. We need to be able to specify the timeout (the default is 2 > seconds, which is not going to work well for formatting your disks) > > Bear in mind that scsi DAT tapes can be "formatted" and "partitioned". SCSI tapes can also be rewound/ejected/erased with commands that don't contain data - and those commands often take a lot longer than 2 seconds. Regards, Mark Hittinger bugs@win.net