From: ggeorge@bu.edu (Gerry George) Subject: Re: [Q] scsi disk formatting - please help Date: 1 Aug 1993 23:10:14 GMT
Jon Hamilton (jdh@iastate.edu) wrote:
: Recently, I installed a scsi drive on my machine. After some work, I managed
: to get the drive and controller recognized by linux. Now the catch: I need
: to format the drive. How? fdisk is no help:
[...]
: the drive is a Quantum P105s, and is properly terminated. The controller
: is a future domain 8 bit TMC-850M. The biggest problem I forsee is that I
: might need to use a dos utility to low level format the drive. Not only is
: that inherently evil :-), but the controller has no bios on it and I'm thinking
: it would be a real chore to get dos to recognize it. Any suggestions?
On the note of foratting SCSI drives, is there any way to load the BIOS
"program" under Linux - sort of equivalent of doing a 'debug' and a program
load 'g=cc00:5' under DOS?
Or, since trhe BIOS *disappears*, is it not possible?
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