Jason Thorpe scribbled:

>I really don't understand why folks thing formatting a disk is so 
>difficult...all you need to so is send the unit a FORMAT UNIT command 
>after setting the appropriate parameters with MODE SELECT.  A program 
>about as long as the sdremap program I just posted would be able to do it :-)

Ha.  :)

>Of course, the harder part is having a nice, well-integrated utility to 
>do all of that for you.  That's why something like a libscsi would be 
>nice; you can implement all the meat, and then layer a nice interface to 
>the user on top of it.

It would be nice to be able to (sorry for the PC-centric post)

	# format fd0a		(format 1.44M floppy disk)
	# format sd0		(low-level format a SCSI disk)

with one unified command.

Also, it would be nice for
	eject
not to need a -t parameter.  Do we need an IOCTL to return the flavor
of a device?  Sure would be nice for some other things, too.

--Michael

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