On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, T. Horsnell wrote: > Can anyone recommend a utility which will let me do SCSI-disk things > like surface scan, low-level format, bad-block re-vector and such? > Rather like the scu utility on my Alpha box. > smartctl cant do this stuff, and I've so far located Joerg Schilling's > sformat-3.4 (which was last modified in 1998 and which currently wont > compile on my Opteron box) and the Seagate 'seatools' utility (which > doesnt offer low-level bad-block testing/revectoring). sg3_utils will do this. The version available on freshrpms does not appear to support revectoring, but the newer rpms available directly from the site http://sg.torque.net/sg/ do. What was nice was an actual port of scu from Tru64 to Linux by someone from DEQ which worked up until the new 2.6 kernels changed things too dramatically.
