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craig@zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:

>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

>Pro-Drive 40S up to recent 850 meg models), reject low-level format 
>commands and return a SCSI completion status almost immediately.

 There is a way, but its a vendor specfic 'Mode Select' command. Or at
least it was on the older LP series drives.
 So you either need a special Quantum low level formater program , or the
OEM manual for the drive and SCSI programming knowedge.

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