Re: SCSI low-level utils

[Gilboa Davara <gilboada netvision net il>]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:38 +0000, 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).
> 
> Any advice appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Terry
> 

I believe smartctl (8) can help you.

Gilboa