Hi All,
I received many responses on FORMAT_UNIT command.
I really appreciate.
Does anybody know, why fdisk is dumping core if partition table
is bad ?
Thanks and regards,
-hiren
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin T. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 5:27 AM
> To: MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: how to issue a FORMAT_UNIT command
>
>
> Hi Hiren,
> If you don't wish to write your own Format program, you
> can grab my SCSI Command Utility (Scu) from URL:
>
> http://www.bit-net.com/~rmiller/scu.html
>
> Use "scu help" to read the help file, or view the on-line
> HTML help on my web page. Use "scu -f diskName" to startup with the
> disk to format. "show edt" shows you all your SCSI devices.
>
> As noted before, this is currently a binary only kit, as the
> Open Source issue is still being worked at Compaq. Further details
> are described on my web page.
>
> No GUI front-end (yet), but it will format disks, diskettes, and
> even DVD-RAM media. If you have bad blocks, you can also
> "reassign" those.
>
> Enjoy,
> RObin
> ==============================================================
> ==============
>
> Topic: format
>
> format
>
> This command is used to format both hard and flexible disk media.
> Since this command modifies the disk media, the full
> command name must
> be entered to be recognized.
>
> Format:
>
> scu> format [ defects defect-list ] [ interleave value ] \
> [ density density-type ] [ flags value ] \
> [ dlist defect-format ] [ options ... ] \
> [ pattern value ] [ working time-value ] \
> [ zone value ]
>
> Notes:
> o If you specified a device via "sbtl" or "set
> nexus", then attempt
> to format the disk, the mounted file system check
> will fail.
> This is done purposely to prevent accidental
> formatting of disks
> with mounted file systems.
> o The flags keyword sets the format options in the
> format header.
> o The current Linux SCSI sub-system only returns 16
> bytes of request
> sense data, so the format progress bytes cannot be
> obtained. For
> this reason, you should NOT do a "format opt
> immed" command. It's
> rumoured that the kernel 2.3 release will correct
> this problem.
> o The "zone" option only has meaning when formatting
> DVD-RAM media.
>
> Errors:
> If file systems are mounted on the disk to be
> formatted, the following
> error message is displayed and then formatting is aborted:
>
> scu> format
> scu: File system '/dev/rz14a' is mounted on '/mnt2',
> EBUSY (16) -
> Mount device busy
> scu>
>
> Examples:
>
> scu> time format defects primary options dcrt
> Formatting device /dev/rrz8c (RZ25M), please be patient...
> Working ... Thu Sep 28 09:54:47 1995
> Working ... Thu Sep 28 09:56:47 1995
> Working ... Thu Sep 28 09:58:47 1995
> Working ... Thu Sep 28 10:00:47 1995
> Working ... Thu Sep 28 10:02:47 1995
> Elapsed time: 08m26.78s, System time: 00m00.00s, User
> time: 00m00.00s
> scu>
>
>
> Subtopics available:
>
> defects density dlist
> interleave
> options pattern working
>
> format subtopic:
>
>
> "MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)" wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there any utility to generate FORMAT_UNIT command ?
> > Also, on one of my scsi disk, the partition table is bad
> > and if I try to run fdisk on it to create new partitions,
> > the fdisk core dumps.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -hiren
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