From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 08:08:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F512106564A for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:08:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from flat.berklix.org (flat.berklix.org [83.236.223.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D9D8FC19 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:08:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A5443.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.84.67]) (authenticated bits=0) by flat.berklix.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8588QY9080379; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:08:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8588GfT030034; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:08:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8588BFx006299; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:08:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <200809050808.m8588BFx006299@fire.js.berklix.net> To: "Alexander Sack" From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:57:12 EDT." <3c0b01820809041457wc629c60i3b876b3895dc9e3d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:08:11 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.org Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to format an ide hard disc in a usb enclosure X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:08:30 -0000 Hi, Reference: > From: "Alexander Sack" > Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:57:12 -0400 > Message-id: <3c0b01820809041457wc629c60i3b876b3895dc9e3d@mail.gmail.com> "Alexander Sack" wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Julian Stacey wrote: > > I know, hence the background, yes I'm fully aware of all repercusions thanks :-) > > Then if you understand IDE, understand what a low-level format really > is (was), then you know that this is probably NOT what you want to do > on your disk and understand it will NOT fix your problem. > > Other than some special vendor utility or BIOS utility, low-level > format doesn't make sense for IDE disks. There is no command for > "format" and trying to reset the geometry like the old days doesn't > even apply to modern disks. > > If you want to try a low-level format tool (for IDE that is probably > just writing 0's or 1's to every sector on the disk and letting the > hard disk automatically map bad blocks), I would just dd all zero's to > it then try to create a filesystem. If you still get media errors, > your disk is foobar or about to be foobar, its cheap and you already > stated you don't have any critical data on it so buy a new disk! :D > > In fact Seagate offers a Windows too to do exactly this called ZeroFill: > > http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=65a8783c970ce010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD&locale=en-GB > > Not trying to be too cheeky here, but I think what you are asking > doesn't makes sense...at least to me.... > > Thanks! I do not run Windows, I run FreeBSD. Repeat: How can I low level format this dik under FreeBSD ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail plain ASCII text. HTML & Base64 text are spam. www.asciiribbon.org