On Thu, 13 May 1999, Michael G. Schabert wrote:

> 
> Then my question is....how do we low-level format under BSD? I've recently
> had similar troubles with my Alpha's hard drive. The only solution that I
> came up with was to use FWB's hard disk toolkit under MacOS, since they
> were SCSI disks.
> 

For BSD, I don't THINK there is a handy way to low level format a SCSI
disk. Your best bet is to mount it on another machine, or try to do it
from a MacOS install CD (if you have an Apple blessed drive, or a patched
version of the Apple SCSI  util). That's what I had to do.

jf