Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 1999 08:57:55 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Low-level format with Sg drivers |
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On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 10:33:26PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Then how does it happen that scsiformat(8) works for me??? It > actually is a wrapper for the SCSI FORMAT_UNIT command.
No idea... I will have to check it out. Perhaps different revision ZIP drives handle format requests differently. I can't make mine format... how long does your take to format?
> If you are not convinced that Zips do actually have spare sectors > then `scsiinfo -d -Fphysical <your_zip_device>' will present you > with the manufacturer and the grown defect tables. The latter is > usually empty for brand new disks while the former contains a > number of entries differing from disk to disk.
Ah... OK. I was under the impression ZIP disks didn't have a grown table. I will have to check this out...
-cw
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