Subject: Re: low-level formatting a SCSI drive?
To: Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/28/1998 13:20:21
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:38:36 +0100 (CET)
Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net> wrote:
> Is there some magic incantation to SRM or some means within -current
> to tell a SCSI drive to go format itself?
I have some patches to the scsictl(8) program to do drive formatting,
which I have not yet committed (because they aren't quite finished, but
they should allow you to do a basic format).
Wanna test 'em? :-)
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