On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:18:53PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> there was a tool on sunsite.unc.edu called scsi-info (or scsi-tools
> or similar) that allowed you to do a low-level format amongst other
> things. (eg toggle write-caching, change buffer sizes, etc..).
It's scsiinfo and it's supplied with SuSE (on SuSE 7.0 it's in group ap2). I
never used it before on Linux (did on Solaris) so I had a quick look and it
doesn't see my SCSI CD writer. BTW the SuSE package also has a SCSI low
level formatting program.
Regards,
Niall
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