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From: chin@sg1.chem.upenn.edu (Chin Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: SCSI formatter
Message-ID: <CHIN.91Feb16214619@sg1.chem.upenn.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 91 02:46:19 GMT
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Hi,
    Recently I got a Fujitusu M2263S and installed it to the 105 MB
NextStation. All thing run smoothly that I can build a file system on
it and I got plenty of space to install whole bunch of goodies.  Then
just for some fun, I try to format it to see what will happen.
Anyhow, I changed my mind during the formatting and interrupted the
program by precessing ^C a couple of times. Well, everything went
wrong from that time. I couldn't read the hard disk, nor did format it
with sdform program which comes with Next OS.
    I guess this is the time to send the drive back for repair. Out of
despair, I regretted to have done such a dangerous adventure. Then the
superman comes to rescue. I happened to have a program called SCSI
formatter from Rory bolt, which I just download. There is nothing I
will lose, its either format the hard disk or send it back. Anyway, the
program works and I got more space than before.
    /etc/sdform and /etc/disk will do the format jobs IF all the
format information are there. They fail to format a corrupted hard
disk. However, SCSI formatter don't need these information and go
ahead to do the job. I thank Rory bolt for creating this program and
will send in the registration money as soon as I get the 4 cents stamp.
    Just a person's experience during the NeXT adventure.


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