Subject: Re: formatting disks?
To: Dave Rand <dlr@daver.bungi.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/21/1997 12:37:14
> Is there a way to format a SCSI disk on a multi?
"yes, but you may not want to know what it is." 8-) There's no SCSI
formatting utility in NetBSD, unfortunately. There've been a couple
hacks posted to various mailing lists (current-users, i think, is at
least one of the lists) to get around this and let people format SCSI
disks.
However, I've gotta wonder: why do you want to low-level-format a SCSI
disk? They come preformatted, and unless your disk has lots of
media errors, or something, you probably don't wnat to format it. If
you just want to put a file system on it, "man newfs".
chris