From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 05:28:53 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA11563 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 05:28:53 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA11557 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 05:28:50 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id IAA03381; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 08:28:22 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199504121228.IAA03381@hda.com> Subject: formatting a scsi disk To: john@starfire.mn.org (John Lind) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 08:28:21 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504112309.SAA01021@starfire.mn.org> from "John Lind" at Apr 11, 95 06:09:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 549 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Lind writes: > > Also, while I have you on the line, how does one issue a low-level format > to SCSI devices? That won't help for this particular application, of > course, since they need a full MS-DOS filesystem out there, but for > other purposes it would be nice to know... You can do a basic format of /dev/rsd0d with: > scsi -f /dev/rsd0d -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267