On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:46:58PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> For SCSI drives, the hardware of the host makes little difference; it's
> the commands coming down the SCSI bus that matter.  Whether the machine
> sending them is made by Sun or Compaq or Apple or what have you matters
> little.

In this case it's the BIOS: ataptec's bios can format/verify a disk
(but beware: verify *is* destructive, at last in some cases).
Quite handy when you don't have the appropriate utility under your OS of
choise :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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