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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Seeking SCSI low-level formatter for FreeBSD
Date: 23 Nov 1995 23:08:07 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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To: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld)

cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes:

> Greetings:  I have a problem with a SCSI disk having bad sectors.
> I have FreeBSD on, in the first partition, on three slices, and
> was wondering if FreeBSD has a low-level SCSI disk formatter that
> also marks bad blocks.

There's a working scsiformat(8) in FreeBSD-current, as well as in the
/xperimnt subdir on the 2.1 CD.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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