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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

8882.0. "SCU format info required" by KERNEL::RUSSELLI () Wed Feb 19 1997 06:36

    I have a customer who wishes to use SCU to format non DEC optical
    drives by means of a script file.
    
    He is able to enter drive head sector info at present by using the
    command "SCU format other" being prompted foir the additional
    information
    
    What he wants to do is use one command line in a script that contains
    all this additional information - is this possible?
     
    Ian Russell
    Open Systems Group
    0836 225455 / 01256 373671

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8882.1 write a shell script NETRIX::"[email protected]" Farrell Woods Wed Feb 19 1997 10:26 30

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8882.1	write a shell script	NETRIX::"[email protected]"	Farrell Woods	`Wed Feb 19 1997 10:26`	30
	What comes to mind is something like this: #!/bin/sh # scu -f $1 <<EOF format $2 $3 quit EOF So if this were called "foo" you could invoke it as: # ./foo /dev/rrz1c defects all In writing such a script you will no doubt want to add some error checking, like the number of parameters passed, etc. Obviously the above is just a tiny example; you will do something a bit more complicated. At the risk of sounding pedantic, a script that invokes scu with a "format" command is basically a loaded gun waiting to go off. Please leave the script in a safe place... Two things you should know about scu: one is that you can't do a "set nexus" followed by a "format unit". scu specifically disallows this. scu will also disallow (for obvious reasons) formatting a disk if any of its partitions are currently mounted. -- Farrell [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]

What comes to mind is something like this:

#!/bin/sh
#
scu -f $1 <<EOF
format $2 $3
quit
EOF

So if this were called "foo" you could invoke it as:

# ./foo /dev/rrz1c defects all

In writing such a script you will no doubt want to add some error
checking, like the number of parameters passed, etc.  Obviously
the above is just a tiny example; you will do something a bit more
complicated.  At the risk of sounding pedantic, a script that
invokes scu with a "format" command is basically a loaded gun waiting
to go off.  Please leave the script in a safe place...


Two things you should know about scu: one is that you can't do a
"set nexus" followed by a "format unit".  scu specifically disallows
this.  scu will also disallow (for obvious reasons) formatting a disk
if any of its partitions are currently mounted.


	-- Farrell

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