From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Oct 13 23:05:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA29339 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:05:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA29331 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:05:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA01985; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:01:28 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA00782; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:01:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA10119; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 22:55:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610122055.WAA10119@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Buslogic controller, Sync mode & a SCSI disk error To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 22:55:17 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610111357.IAA20953@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Oct 11, 96 08:57:50 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Greco wrote: > Hi Rod, Not me :), but... > > Is there a good tool to do this sort of stuff under FreeBSD (besides doing > it by hand with the scsi command)? > > The NCR controllers in use around here do not have a built in BIOS utility > (like the Adaptecs do) to do low level formatting and verification/bad > block remapping. What's wrong with scsiformat(8)? It used to be in the 2.2 branch for quite some time, but also finally found its way into 2.1.5R. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)