On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:

>
> Greywolf writes:
> > ...!  I've never seen a firmware-capable formatter before, not even on the
> > SPARCs.  Pointer to the docs, or a quick-list of commands, STP?
>
> I think you are right.  Its been a while since I did anything with the
> scsi's on the sparcs and things have clearly gotten muddled in my
> mind.  The firmware format was only on the pci-adaptec for the x86.
> Formatting on the sparcs was always done either from the SUNOS 4.x
> install media or from Sunos.  The little that are in the sparc prom
> was limited to probe-scsi.

It shouldn't be anymore than sending a "format-device" command to the scsi
device in question, yes?  Or am I thinking far too simplistically?

Maybe stick some code into the scsictl command for it?