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does anybody know a sformat-like-tool for IDE-Disks ?

We have  an Ultra 5/10 with the following disk
under Solaris 2.6:

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0t0d0 <ST39140A cyl 17660 alt 2 hd 16 sec 63>

TIA

Nele

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The first version was available for SunOS 3.5 in August 1986, when Sun
still forced you to boot a stand alone format program to to the job.
It seems that I convinced Sun to go for a program that runs under UNIX.

Well compared to format from Sun, sformat has two main advantages:

-       Sformat does a better surface analysis and finds much more
        defective blocks than format. It also has a more intelligent
        method of doing block repair.

-       Sformat has a better method of creating disk lables (partitions)
        It is easy to shift (move) a partition and to tell sformat
        that the next partition should just start after the last.

.... of course thare have been more advantages in the early days ;-)

When sformat has been created in 1986, it was the first user of the scg
SCSI generic driver which currently us used by other programs (such as
cdrecord) too.

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