I'll try that with my Sparc Station 4. I have a bunch of those DFHS drives
in my drawer, and I would like to put them to good use in my Alpha.
There are only two kinds of disks, new ones and full ones...:-)

Anders

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On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Jan 11, 2004, at 6:29 AM, Anders Hogrelius wrote:
> > Does anyone have any idea on how to low-level format a IBM DFHS disk
> > that
> > has 522 bytes/sector to a more useable 512 bytes/sector format? I've
> > tried scsictl, but without any luck. This is what happens if I try
> > formatting with "scsictl sd2 format 512"
> ...
> > I know that it's supposed to be possible to reformat the disk to 512
> > b/sec. I've tried several of these disks with the same result though.
> > Someone told me that the low level format utility in Adaptec's bios on
> > their controllers should be able to do the trick, but it's a bit
> > difficult
> > to use in an Alpha though...;-)
>
>    Do you have a Solaris machine handy?  I do it under Solaris all the
> time...as soon as I select the disk in the "format" program, it'll do
> the 512-byte reformat for you.
>
>         -Dave
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