Re: scsi controller
I don't know, but I think it's trivial. If I remember well, fdisk shows
the drive data under the expert menu, so ...
fdisk /dev/sdb
x (go to expert menu)
e (edit drive data)
the first question is bytes/sector
Please let us know if it works :)
Ionut
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 01:17, Szieberth Denes wrote:
> > scsiformat uses the /dev/sg* device, not /dev/sdb. Does this mean that
> > the disk is not listed under /proc/scsi/scsi at all ?
> >
>
> /proc/scsi/scsi:
>
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST318451LW Rev: 0003
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
> Vendor: IBMAS400 Model: DGVS09U Rev: S9NA
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> The one I want to format is the second one. However, scsiinfo does not
> work for any of the /dev/sg* devices (it works for /dev/sda), trying
> scsiformat /dev/sg1 for blind resulted in:
>
> scsiformat (flushing disk buffers of /dev/sg1): Invalid argument
>
> any other idea?
>
> thanks
> dino
>
>
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