From owner-freebsd-current  Sat Feb  6 20:58:04 1999
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05152
          for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 20:58:04 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04870
          for <current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 20:54:49 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com)
Received: (from ken@localhost)
          by panzer.plutotech.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) id VAA61394;
          Sat, 6 Feb 1999 21:54:38 -0700 (MST)
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Message-Id: <199902070454.VAA61394@panzer.plutotech.com>
Subject: Re: low level format--how??
In-Reply-To: <199902070426.XAA12491@kot.ne.mediaone.net> from Mikhail Teterin at "Feb 6, 1999 11:26: 8 pm"
To: mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 21:54:38 -0700 (MST)
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

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