[rescue] Low-level SCSI formatting.

[Mike Meredith]

On Monday 30 December 2002 8:08 pm, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Is is possible to low-level format a SCSI drive with either a Sun
> SPARCstation LX (Solaris 7) or an SGI Indigo2 (IRIX 6.5.11)?

There's sformat 
(http://freshmeat.net/redir/sformat/14755/url_tgz/sformat-3.5.tar.gz)

Don't know how effective it is.

> wouldn't fix itself.  I replaced it.  Opinions as to the efficacy of
> low-level formatting in this case solicited, as well.

I've never been keen on re-using disks that have started misbehaving.