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The main advantages to the Sun format utility are:
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- Working surface analyze that will detect defective blocks that are going
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to get bad.
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- Analyzing program that detects defective bearings in the disk (-randrw).
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- Will repair nearly any defective disk, that has no firmware bug or electric
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defect.
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- Allows to clear the grown defect list if a disk.
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- Disk geometry and label geometry are separated.
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- Allows cheating in the label geometry to deal with the problems with the
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limitation to 16 bit data types in the Sun disk label.
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- Large database of disks including firmware specials.
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- You need no desk calculator to generate a partition table.
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Shorthands for:
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- MBytes
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- cylinders/head/sectors
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- size partition to end on end of disk
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- partition following another partition
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- partition ending before another partition
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- shifting partition on the disk (allows growing part 0 and shrinking part 1)
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- Partition consistency checker with (ascii) graphical display.
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- Mode page interpreter allows to set easily all mode pages you will ever find
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in a manual, sformat needs not to know about them.
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NOTE: Sformat has its full functionality on SunOS/Solaris on sparc
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and Motorola systems, on all other systems sformat will create
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Sun disk labels with wrong byte-order, but formatting/analysis/
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repair will work.
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