Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 08:00:41 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: bmk@dtr.com, john@starfire.mn.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: formatting a scsi disk Message-ID: <199505011500.IAA07183@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 1995 08:22:01 EDT." <199505011222.IAA21137@hda.com>
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>bmk@dtr.com writes:
>>
>>
>> > bmk@dtr.com writes:
>> > >
>> > > Can't get it to work here, any clues?
>>
>> > 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)
>>
>> > 2. We need to account for disks that can't be opened by the disk driver
>> > before formatting.
>>
>> So... I guess my next question is how can I reformat a problematic SCSI
>> disk since I'm running SNAP-0412 and not current. The controller is a
>> Buslogic 445 - and they don't provide a SCSI format utility.
>>
>> If it's necessary, I can format the disk on an Adaptec 1542 (which does
>> have a formatter), but I'd rather not do that, since it'd involve
>> disassembling two machines.
>
>Try this. It should work if you can open the disk. If you can't
>you'll have to either upgrade to -current when I fix that problem (and I
>haven't yet) or you'll have to use your 1542.
>
>This will do a "Test Unit Ready".
>You have to change the "0 0 0 0 0 0" to "4 0 0 0 0 0" to get a format.
>
>Let me know how it works out.
>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>#include <sys/scsiio.h>
>#include <errno.h>
>#include <sys/file.h>
>
>#include <scsi.h>
>
>int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>{
> int fid;
> scsireq_t *scsireq;
>
> if (argc != 2) {
> fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s device\n", argv[0]);
> exit(-1);
> }
>
> if ( (fid = scsi_open(argv[1], O_RDWR)) == -1) {
> perror(argv[1]);
> exit(errno);
> }
>
> scsireq = scsireq_build(scsireq_new(), 0, 0, 0,
> "0 0 0 0 0 0", /* Change to "4 0 0 0 0 0" for format */
> 0);
> scsireq->timeout = 20 * 60 * 1000; /* 20 minutes in ms */
>
> if (scsireq_enter(fid, scsireq) == -1) {
> scsi_debug(stderr, -1, scsireq);
> exit(errno);
> }
>
> exit(0);
>}
These types of programs are really useful. Is there any interest in
having a "scsi-format" or "mode-page-tweeker" in the distribution? The
more I can do in FreeBSD, the less often I have to dust off my DOS
floppy... :)
>--
>Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation
>HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936
>dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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