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Article #3338Re: Quantum fireball 1080s : corrupt lable, wrong magic number, i am new to solaris: HELP !!!!
From: Craig Dewick
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00
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In <319C07BD.1CFB@acci.COM.AU> Mark Sitkowski <marks@acci.COM.AU> writes:
>You can't format the things on a Sun. There is firmware in the disk to
>prevent this (so Quantum told me). The low-level formatting is pre-done
>for you. However, you can trash the label by trying (I've done it too).
There is rarely ever a need to re-low-level format a Quantum drive. In
fact, all of the Quantum drives I've used (ranging from the very first
Pro-Drive 40S up to recent 850 meg models), reject low-level format
commands and return a SCSI completion status almost immediately.
It's a trait peculiar to Quantum's I think.
Regards,
Craig.
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