SCSI low-level utils

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Nov 30 15:49:20 UTC 2005


T. Horsnell wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a utility which will let me do SCSI-disk things
> like surface scan, low-level format, bad-block re-vector and such?
> Rather like the scu utility on my Alpha box.
> smartctl cant do this stuff, and I've so far located Joerg Schilling's
> sformat-3.4 (which was last modified in 1998 and which currently wont
> compile on my Opteron box) and the Seagate 'seatools' utility (which
> doesnt offer low-level bad-block testing/revectoring).
> 
> Any advice appreciated.

I'm not sure about smartctl, but there are/were some scsi utilities 
around. Try google.

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John

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