From: jdh@iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) Subject: [Q] scsi disk formatting - please help Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 12:27:32 GMT
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:
fdisk /dev/sda
scsi 0: heads = 6 cylinders = 1019 sectors = 0 total = 0 formatted = 205075
divide error: 0000
EIP: 0010:01626E
EFLAGS: 00010286
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?
Please reply via email; I'll summarize responses when the dust settles.
Oh, system is noname 386sx, Linux pl11 with the seagate driver in the
kernel (yes, that's the right driver).
TIA.
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