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From: w-stevej@microsoft.UUCP (Steven KEPPEL-JONES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A2090A help wanted
Summary: Low-level formatting?
Message-ID: <70395@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 91 21:11:34 GMT
Reply-To: w-stevej@microsoft.UUCP (Stephen KEPPEL-JONES)
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Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Is there a way to send a SCSI low-level format command through the A2090
controller?  I'd like my drive to reformat itself and map out a couple of
bad blocks.  Of course I can have the 2090 map out the blocks too, but
it's better if the drive does that.  Any ideas?

-- Steve