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From: izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXTStep 2.0 Completed
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Date: 21 Nov 90 07:51:07 GMT
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In article <352@atncpc.UUCP> bruce@atncpc.UUCP (Bruce Henderson) writes:
>
>One of my favorites (and completely unexpected) is the improvement to 
>the SCSI drivers.  Today I hooked up an unformatted Wren V to my cube
>and booted from the ROM monitor.  It cheerfully reported that it was
>a Wren V, Sector size, model number, SCSI ID... (I thought geez...!)
>
>Then the workspace manager started.  An alert came up saying it was 
>unreadable (the Wren V), and would I like to format it?  I clicked 
>yes.  3 Minutes later the Workspace mounted it.  It works.... That

Low-level format of a Wren V can't possibly be completed in 3 minutes.
So, I assume what is now automatic in 2.0 is (disk -i /dev/rsdxx),
and this is possible without a disktab entry for the drive.

My question to those with 2.0 is:

Does the 2.0 OS include a program which allows us to do low-level
formatting of SCSI disks?

Such a program is needed to fix SCSI Media errors, which may
develop after some use.
For Release 1.0, there was an unsupported program (not on OD) called 
'formatdisk' which could do this at least on Maxtor drives.

Is there something similar or hopefully better in the 2.0 release?

Izumi Ohzawa, izumi@violet.berkeley.edu