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From: hanke@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Norbert Hanke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: initializing scsi hard drive
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Date: 5 Feb 91 14:41:21 GMT
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If you can execute arbitrary SCSI commands, you might try to issue a
FORMAT UNIT command. Command format:

Byte 0     0    0    0    0    0    1    0    0     X'04'
Byte 1     ----LUN----   FmtD CmpL  DefectListForm. 
Byte 2     0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0     X'00'
Byte 3     Interleaving factor (MSB)
Byte 4     Interleaving factor (LSB)
Byte 5     0    0    0    0    0    0   Flag Link

The FmtD, CmpL and DefectListForm fields are rather difficult to use, my
Fuji manuals has 10 pages dealing with these; I suggest leaving them at
zero. This should work with most SCSI drives.

Norbert Hanke
ETH Zurich