On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:43:09PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> I've got a Quantum Fireball TM1280 in a Sun 4/40 (sun4c) which I've
> installed NetBSD 1.4.2/sparc on, but the disk is suspect.  (You'll all
> recall the post of a few days ago).  I'd like to do a so-called low
> level format.  Slowly I'm phasing out all DOS/Windows machines on which
> I've always done this kind of formating/media verification, and I'd
> like to start using NetBSD to this kind of hardware-related checking, etc.
> 
> I looked at `man scsictl`, but the command "format" was not shown, only
> identify, reset and reassign.  I tried the command `scsictl sd1 format`

Hum, the 1.5 man page as a format keyword.

> anyway on another disk that passed all the tests that Sun's format command
> does, but I got a "/dev/rsd1c: SCSI command timed out" error.

This is likely a bug in the SCSI adapter driver, which has problems with long
timeouts.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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