[X-Unix] Disk Formatting

[Barry Lyden]

It has been my experience that many new after-market drives include 
such tools. Even if this is an original equipment drive, if you can 
identify the drive by manufacturer and model number, you may be able to 
get a tool directly from the drive maker's support web. If you plan to 
do this to many different types of drives, however, then this may be 
impractical. Anyway, it's just a thought.


On Feb 18, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Alex wrote:

>
>>> I want to format a hard disk, scan the surface for bad blocks, and 
>>> map
>>> out the bad blocks, if any. Is there a CLI tool for this job?
>
>
> On Tuesday, Feb 17, 2004, at 22:47 Canada/Eastern, Alexandre Gauthier 
> wrote:
>
>> This is a shot in the dark, but you may want to research fsck_hfs 
>> (fsck)
>
> On Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004, at 01:18 Canada/Eastern, Juan Manuel 
> Palacios wrote:
>
>> There's always pdisk(1) to manipulate Apple partition maps, but I 
>> don't know if it'll get you what you want with respect to the surace 
>> scanning, pretty sure it'll let you reformat the hard disk and create 
>> a custom setup.
>
> On Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004, at 10:44 Canada/Eastern, Brent Baisley 
> wrote:
>
>> Try looking into diskutil and hfs.util
>
>
> Thanks for the replies. However, the above-mentioned utilities are 
> concerned with high-level manipulation. I'm looking for something that 
> does low-level formatting, e.g., format, which, however, AFAICT is not 
> included with Darwin.
>
> f
>
>
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