[2393] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Program to manipulate SCSI mode pages?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Neuffer)
Sat Aug 30 08:22:09 1997
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:52:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Michael Neuffer <neuffer@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Reply-To: neuffer@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199708292050.QAA13010@dcl.MIT.EDU>
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Under Ultrix, there was a really convenient program called rzdisk that
> allowed you to manipulate the various SCSI mode pages on the disk. This
> is where you can configure things like whether or not to spin up the
> motor on power up (or whether the disk should wait for a SCSI command to
> spin up the motor), etc.
>
> rzdisk could handled reading the defect list from the drive, reassign
> bad blocks on the disk, do a low-level format of the disk, etc.
>
> Is there an equivalent program under Linux? If so, where is it?
No, unfortunately so far nobody has written a tool to do this.
The only tool that comes somewhat near it, is scsiinfo.
Mike
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep,
And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."
