rsutc@fornax.UUCP (Rick Sutcliffe) (11/16/90)
I have a dead 160M DPI drive about 1 1/2 years old. I believe the mechanism is a Seagate. It cannot be formatted by the OEM formatter because the media is apparently bad in the extent file. That is, I need to do a new low level format. This is commonly done in the IBM world, but I have never heard tell of a SCSI low level formatter loose in the real world outside the manufacturers. Can anybody point me to an appropriate utility for this task. (BTW, I have hacked this thing pretty well; I assure you it really is dead. The formatter burps once and hangs without getting anywhere, and of course an initialize is also hopeless in this state.) Rick Sutcliffe Associate Professor \ (Adjunct Professor Computing Science & Mathematics \ School of Computing Science Trinity Western University \ Simon Fraser University 7600 Glover Rd., \ Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6 Langley B.C. Canada V3A 4R9 e-mail: Rick_Sutcliffe@cc.sfu.ca OR Compuserve 76475,3406