I think I remember seeing Jason commit a new scsictl program recently,
and then shortly thereafter added the low-level "format unit" command to
one of the header files.  This just might do the trick...

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Ken Nakata wrote:

> Joshua E Hope wrote:
> > 
> > What I am wondering: Can I format this drive from within UNIX?
> 
> Provided that you know the partition table format precisely and that
> reads/writes to the drive still works, you could write a small C program
> (or even a Perl script) to write a fake partition table image to a few
> top sectors of /dev/rsdXc.
> 
> Ken
> 

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