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From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Formatting Hard Drive for 3b2/310
Message-ID: <589@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US>
Date: 9 Dec 90 10:55:53 GMT
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Organization: VSI*FAX Tech Ctr, Tustin, CA
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[ somebody asked how to format a 3B2 drive without ID tools ]

> To format a hard disk, use 'fmthard /dev/rdsk/device_name'.  If the device
> does not exist, go into firmware mode  (shutdown -y -g0 -i5) and run 'filledt'
> and the generate a new unix by running '/etc/system'.  This should create the
> devices.

NO!  Fmthard does NOT do a physical format at all -- it just writes
the partition tables and optionally makes filesystems.  You absolutely,
positively cannot format a drive without idtools.

     Steve

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