Rebecca Ore writes:
> Scsi format?  I made new file systems on both drives when I installed
> NetBSD.  Is this something other than that?

Yes, its much different.  The newfs is simply writing the data parts
of the sector.  The scsi-format writes the disk's sector headers.

In the old days Sun used to tell folks to do a scsi format from the
Sun boot prom before you installed anything to the disk.

-wolfgang
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