From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Bowes Subject: Re: Recover SCSI disks Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:43:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4358404B.9080006@torque.net> <4358D336.7040303@robinbowes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:25498 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964927AbVJUMpu (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:45:50 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ESwHG-0003Xa-56 for linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:45:42 +0200 Received: from 83-216-145-213.pambow882.adsl.metronet.co.uk ([83.216.145.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:45:42 +0200 Received: from robin-lists by 83-216-145-213.pambow882.adsl.metronet.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:45:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4358D336.7040303@robinbowes.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Robin Bowes said the following on 21/10/2005 12:38: > Douglas Gilbert said the following on 21/10/2005 02:11: > >> Robin, >> You may like to fetch sg3_utils and try sg_format thus: >> sg_format /dev/sda >> assuming a disk you have fetched from the array is placed >> at /dev/sda . > > > Hmm, sg3_utils doesn't seem to contain sg_format: > > [root@compact ~]# rpm -ql sg3_utils > /usr/bin/scsi_devfs_scan > /usr/bin/sg_dd > /usr/bin/sg_inq > /usr/bin/sg_logs > /usr/bin/sg_map > /usr/bin/sg_modes > /usr/bin/sg_rbuf > /usr/bin/sg_read > /usr/bin/sg_readcap > /usr/bin/sg_reset > /usr/bin/sg_scan > /usr/bin/sg_senddiag > /usr/bin/sg_start > /usr/bin/sg_test_rwbuf > /usr/bin/sg_turs > /usr/bin/sginfo > /usr/bin/sgm_dd > /usr/bin/sgp_dd > (man pages snipped) Let me re-phrase that, the Fedora Core 4 sg3_utils-1.06-5 rpm doesn't contain sg_format (the above listing is from there). I see from rpmfind that it is in the mandrake sg3_utils-1.16-1mdk rpm. Ah, I've got the latest version from http://sg.torque.net/sg/index.html R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong?