RE: [Scsirastools-developers] SGDIAG -F

[Cress, A. R <and...@in...>]

Ronny,

Yes, the format does erase all data on the hard disk device specified.  Your
motherboard is fine, just the hard disk is affected.  
sgdiag option 'f' does a SCSI low-level format of your hard disk.  I believe
the man page describes it ok, but let me know if it should say more.
Perhaps an additional warning/confirmation should be added to the utility
itself.

Stopping a SCSI format in the middle is a bad thing.  The partition table is
in the first sector of the disk, and that has already been cleared, so it
becomes rather difficult to recover anything from a partially formatted
disk.  If it was your root disk, then you will need other boot media to
re-format the disk before you reinstall the OS.  Or, your SCSI adapter may
support doing a format from its BIOS.  Adaptec allows you to press Ctrl-A
during post and it has Disk Utilities to do a format of a disk from the
BIOS.  After completing a full format, you will then be able to reinstall
that disk with an OS.

Let me know if you need further help with how to get reinstalled.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronny Fang [mailto:yi...@co...] 
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 3:00 PM
To: scs...@li...
Subject: [Scsirastools-developers] SGDIAG -F


Hello, What exactly does the SGDIAG -F option do?  I ran that, stopped it
before it finished because I thought it would erase all data on my HD.  Now,
my system wont' boot and it's suspected that the motherboard has been fried.

Regards,
Ronny



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