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Subject: Re: in situ scsi formatting
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 15:06:54 -0700 (PDT)
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yes you can, using the 'scsi(8)' program
I haven't done it however, but you can send it almost any scsi command.

> 
> Is there a way to low level format a SCSI drive under FreeBSD?
> I have one drive that has a media error and I don't want to run
> SCSICNTL.EXE from a DOS diskette.
> 
> It would be nice to dismount the drive, send it the appropriate
> scsi commands (scsi) and partition and disklabel it afterwards.
> Has anyone done so?
> 
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
>