From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 6 12:53:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21968 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 12:53:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cx757770-a.fed1.sdca.home.com (cx757770-a.fed1.sdca.home.com [24.0.167.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21963 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 12:53:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daren@sefcik.cc) Received: from localhost (daren@localhost) by cx757770-a.fed1.sdca.home.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA03940; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:10:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:10:34 -0800 (PST) From: Daren Sefcik X-Sender: daren@cx757770-a.fed1.sdca.home.com To: Josef Grosch cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: low level format--how?? In-Reply-To: <19990206124656.A6621@mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No..it's an HP generic and it has no BIOS... I tried using SCSI ToolBox on my windows machine but it just hangs. The disk was formatted for freebsd and I used the newfs_msdos command on it and now it is hosed..I can't seem to get it back. Disklabel gives me a "disk not configured" error argghh..any ideas/help..?? Daren On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 12:55:16PM -0800, Daren Sefcik wrote: > > Is it possible to do a low level format > > of a scsi disk..I do not see a utility > > to do so. > > If you are using an Adaptec controller card, like a 2940, there is a > low-level format in the card-bios. You can get into the card-bios utilities > by watching the system as it is coming up and hitting control-a. > > Your mileage may vary. > > > Josef > > -- > Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.0 > jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message