ide st39120A format question

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Hi,
I have an ultra10 that i need to install sol2.8 on its ineternal
ide39120A disk. I "ok>boot cdrom -sw" and try to run the format
command there. In format "format" gives me:
cannot format drive, use manufacturer supplied format utility.

what should i do?.

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[Selar Rao]

Here is a link to Seagate's instrctions for low-level formatting:
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/low_level_ata.html

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[Logan Shaw]

In article <l.1009231853.1405059814@[63.127.215.130]>,

msg...@hotmail.com <u4104...@spawnkill.ip-mobilphone.net> wrote:
>I have an ultra10 that i need to install sol2.8 on its ineternal
>ide39120A disk. I "ok>boot cdrom -sw" and try to run the format
>command there. In format "format" gives me:
>cannot format drive, use manufacturer supplied format utility.
>
>what should i do?.

You should examine your assumption that you need to low-level format
the disk. It's not necessary if the disk is even vaguely recent and
the manufacturer is even vaguely competent.

So basically, skip the step of formatting and just install.
That means doing just "boot cdrom" and not the "-sw".

(If you really want to be paranoid, you can test the hard drive's ability
to read and write data by running the "format" command from the CD-ROM,
and then using the surface analysis tools. I believe the menu choice is
"analysis" or "analyze". If you don't mind erasing the data on the disk,
choose one of the destructive tests. This test will read and write data
to every block on the disk, thus ensuring it really works[1].)

- Logan

[1] Not really. If you want to know if a disk really works, your test
needs to last for at least a week if not a month or more. I've seen
disk problems that only show up for 30 minutes or less per week,
but during that time, the disk isn't usable.
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