Specifications
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fx
Commands
fx
offers the following commands
auto
badblock
ucrcise
Exits
Er.
During an
fx
session, a copy of
all
disk
label
information
is
maintained
in
memory.
If
you have made changes
to
the buffer,
you have
the
option
to
write
this
information
to
disk when you
exit.
fk
will
ask
if
you want
to
re-create
the drive
label.
Provides
capability
to
rea&
write,
and
dump
blocks
of
data
Debug
is
used
primarily for
engineering
and manufacturing (not
needed
for field
service).
Enables you
to
do various
tasks
to
a disk drive label. You can
use
label to
read
the
disk's
existing label
or
create
a new label
using
default values.
Note:
Labeling the drive destroys existing data and
files
in
the
The
label
command contains four sub-commands:
show
Shows
existing
contents
of
disk
label. The
show
command contains a number
of
sub-commands
volume
directory.
sync
Writes
label
in
memory b&er
to
disk.
set
Contains
sub-commands
that
allow
you
to
change drive
information
such
as
boot information, drive parameters,
and partition.
default
SGI
label,
which
includes parameters
for
boot
information, drive
parameters,
and default
etions.
cnates
the
SGI disk label and
formats
the
disk.
Auto
is
a
good
choice
far
fomatting
a
virgin
disk
drive.
Allows
you
to
access
or manipulate
the
bad block
list
contained
in
the
disk
label
on
ESDI disk
drives.
For SCSI drives, you
can
only
display the bad block
list
For
SCSI
disk
drives, only the following
badblock
commands
are
available:
adbb
Add
new
bad blocks
to
badblock
list
in
buffer.
showbb
Display badblock list
from
Mer.
Offers
a
variety of disk exercises.
After
formatting the
disk,
use
the
exercise
function
to
find bad blocks.
If
a bad block
is
detected
during an exercise, the head and
cylinder
lowtion
of the bad block
is
entered into the memory
buffer.
When
you exit
fk,
you have the
option
to
re-creafe
the disk label,
which
will
assign
an
alternative
track
to
a bad block
create
Contains
sub-commands
that
allow
you
to
create
a
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