PC Adaptec SCSI BIOS format option?

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 10:30 -0600, P Thompson wrote: Thanks to those who replied - both on the list and privately. I gave it a go and it seems to have worked; 'badblocks' under Linux just found the one bad block, so I tried the 'verify media' option in the end under the Adaptec BIOS (I'd forgotten about that option, only remembering 'format'). It too just found the one bad block and says that it remapped it for me, so all seems to be well (assuming the problem block was a random event on a ten year old drive, rather than it being the first sign of rapid self destruction) I'm glad it seems to have sorted itself out; I'm running low on spare single-ended SCSI drives of around the 1GB capacity with 50 pin connectors these days... cheers! Jules