Article: 174431 of comp.unix.solaris
From: js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Format Failure
Date: 16 Apr 1999 09:59:21 GMT
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In article <37167542.E9883F36@eng.utah.edu>,
Shawn Laughlin  <laughli@eng.utah.edu> wrote:
>I am new to Sun hardware so please pardon me if this is a stupid
>question.  I am trying to format a 2G hard disk in a sparc 10.  Format
>will not auto format the disk.  I can fill in the tracks,heads etc and
>it will start to format the drive and will fail with these errors
>
>data transfer overrun: current esp state
>esp: state=DATA Last State=DATA_DONE
>...
>...
>

If you have problems to format a disk, you might want to try 'sformat'
Sformat is available on:

	ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/sformat

Note that you need the scg driver to use sformat. Scg is on:

	ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/kernel/scg


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