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 k...@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
