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William Massa wrote:
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> How do you do a low level format?
>
Depending on the type of disk that you have here are the options:
SCSI Disk:
There are three methods available to format a scsi disk
1) Along with your scsi card there should come a lowlevel scsi format
utility that will make a low level format compatable to your scsi
adaptor. This is usually a DOS utility though.
2) Linux scsiformat. Here is a quote from the man page:
scsiformat(8) Scsiinfo User's Guide scsiformat(8)
NAME
scsiformat - low level format an scsi disk device
SYNOPSIS
scsiformat [-options...] device
DESCRIPTION
Low level formats the SCSI device identified by the scsi
disk or generic scsi device node device. You must be root
to perform this operation. scsiformat will ask a simple
question to get your confirmation and check if partitions
on device are still mounted. Possible swap spaces on
device are swapoff(8)'ed prior to formatting.
During formatting a file like /tmp/scsifor
mat.xx:xx:xx:xx:xxxxxxxx is used to hold some status
information.
3) Linux sformat, Here is the description from Debian package:
Description: SCSI disk format and repair tool
Sformat will let you low-level format and repair bad blocks on
SCSI disks. It can help you get data off a failing disk and
often resurrect an apparently-broken drive.
.
Users of SunOS will recognise the features from Sun's format command.
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For ide drives there are DOS utilities for performing a lowlevel format,
but they come with some disk utility programs. If you want to practice
your assembler you can create a simple utility for formating a ide drive
using, or get the utility from the hard drive manufacturer for lowlevel
formating the drive. Most manufacturers only supply a dos utility for
performing lowlevel formats though.
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