Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 21:54:38 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net (Mikhail Teterin) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: low level format--how?? Message-ID: <199902070454.VAA61394@panzer.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199902070426.XAA12491@kot.ne.mediaone.net> from Mikhail Teterin at "Feb 6, 1999 11:26: 8 pm"
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Mikhail Teterin wrote... > Kenneth D. Merry once stated: > > =To format a disk, you would do something like this: > = > =camcontrol cmd -n da -u 0 -t 3600 -v -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" > > Yep, this similar to what the scsiformat(8) script was doing using > the scsi(8) command. > > IMHO, it is very bad, the scsi(8) did not survive the switch to CAM as > a backward-compatability interface... Or, at least, the nice scsiformat > should be re-introduced, using the camcontrol as a back-end. I've been planning on doing a 'camcontrol format' subcommand. That's why the scsiformat(8) utility hasn't reappeared. At some point, I'll probably also do a port of Joerg Schilling's sformat utility. It has far more functionality than will probably ever go into camcontrol. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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