#: 14928 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    11-Apr-92  09:38:52
Sb: #14912-scsi formatting
Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

Bob,

 >Is there a way to do a real physical format on these?

If you have a Quantum or a Conner, no.  I take it from your message that you
did select a physical format but it only took a couple seconds.  This is what
the drives above do.  They are already formatted from the factory and use a
special format to get the increased speeds.  When you send a SCSI format
command to the drive, it just does a check on itself and returns a success (or
something like that).

If you need to do a real format, you'll have to send the drive out to a depot
repair site or return to the manufacturer.  You can still mark out bad sectors
by doing a physical verify and it will mark out in the bitmap those sectors
that it can't read.

Mark