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Date: Sun 13-Sep-1991 16:24:49 From: cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper) Subject: low level formatting of SCSI drives... I would like to know if there are any low-level SCSI formatters for the NeXT (or source code for other platforms in C) the can format a drive and mark off the bad blocks on the drive as it formats. From reading the SCSI docs, it seems to me that the FORMAT UNIT command can do that, but the program for doing a low-level format on the NeXT (sdform) does not do this (it says in the man pages that one of the bugs is that it makes no additions to the bad block table). Can anyone point me to some source code or docs on this? Is there anything special I have to be aware of when writing code to work with a SCSI drive? Thanks for any help anyone can offer!
Date: Sun 16-Sep-1991 10:58:29 From: x03@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (A. Stegmeier) Subject: Re: low level formatting of SCSI drives... In article <11925@plains.NoDak.edu> cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper) writes: >I would like to know if there are any low-level SCSI formatters for >the NeXT (or source code for other platforms in C) the can format >a drive and mark off the bad blocks on the drive as it formats. From >reading the SCSI docs, it seems to me that the FORMAT UNIT command >can do that, but the program for doing a low-level format on the >NeXT (sdform) does not do this (it says in the man pages that one >of the bugs is that it makes no additions to the bad block table). >Can anyone point me to some source code or docs on this? Is there >anything special I have to be aware of when writing code to work >with a SCSI drive? Thanks for any help anyone can offer! > >-- >"Life is pain Highness, anyone who tells | Jeff Cooper >you different is selling something." | cooper@plains.nodak.edu > | plains!cooper%midkemia >- The Dread Pirate Roberts | (701) 289-0893 There is kind of shareware utility to perform this task. Sorry, I can't remember the name. Please refer to the NeXT discussion list. This subject has been discussed extensively there. Achim Stegmeier EARN: X03@DHDURZ1 Unirechenzentrum Heidelberg E-Mail: x03@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
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