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On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 8:35:38 AM UTC+2, k14...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I assumed I was familiar enough in SCSI, but after having run into an issue I'm not so sure
> any longer ... In installing Freebsd for the first time I connected two Seagate st300007LW
> hard drives to a LSI21320-R raid controller. Just each drive to respective channel (i.e no raid)
> 
> The drives were purchased on eBay so I wanted to checkout if they had any defect blocks, 
> but I could not find any 'verify' or 'format' option in the LSI SCSI Bios setup utility.
> 
> At first I assumed that there was something wrong, a BIOS issue or what ever.
> But after having poked around on the internet it appears that there basically is is no 
> such option in the BIOS for the LSI21320-R HBA ???
> 
> I thought that that 'low level format' and block level verification was a pretty much a mandatory
> functionality in any SCSI controller equipped with a BIOS ???
> 
> What am I'm missing?
> 
>  Rgds,
>   Mat

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Thanx for your replies!
Rgds,
 Mat

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LSI3120-r BIOS ….. k1403a@gmail.com - 2016-08-08 23:35 -0700
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