Whew, I was feeling pretty dumb there for a while.  I think Dec Alpha boxes
had that from when I was looking for such a critter back in September.

Ben Harris did let me know back then though:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2000/09/19/0008.html

that the 1.5 release does have an option in scsictl option that would get
used by 'scsictl /dev/rsd0c format'.

So, if you're running 1.5, I guess it is there (correcting myself) but it
doesn't exist in 1.4.

peter



> 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.
>