Formatting Hard Drive for 3b2/310
Stephen J. Friedl
friedl at mtndew.Tustin.CA.US
Sun Dec 9 21:55:53 AEST 1990
[ somebody asked how to format a 3B2 drive without ID tools ]
> To format a hard disk, use 'fmthard /dev/rdsk/device_name'. If the device
> does not exist, go into firmware mode (shutdown -y -g0 -i5) and run 'filledt'
> and the generate a new unix by running '/etc/system'. This should create the
> devices.
NO! Fmthard does NOT do a physical format at all -- it just writes
the partition tables and optionally makes filesystems. You absolutely,
positively cannot format a drive without idtools.
Steve
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