On Sun, 29 Sep 1996 13:59:46 -0500 (CDT) 
 Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> wrote:

 > How do we format disks?  On the Amiga port, I use the Amiga drive
 > partitioner, and then run newfs in Unix.  (Or, I run the BSD-filesystem
 > newfs under AmigaDOS, and then fsck -c 2.)

Unfortunately, we don't have a low-level SCSI formattting tool (yet)...

 > I have an old Sun drive that appears to be getting "non-media hardware
 > failures", and I thought I'd format it, but I don't know how.

...but I'm not sure a low-level format will fix this anyhow...

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