Charles M. Hannum writes:
> 
> 
>    > While I'm thinking of it, does the FreeBSD scsi utility, or any other
>    > SCSI utility, offer the ability to reformat drives with 1KB sectors?
> 
>    I don't have the spec right here.  I think it amounts to (with the
>    FreeBSD utility)
> 
>    scsi -f /dev/rsd0.ctl -e 3 -P 3        # Manually edit the format
> 					  #  device page to set sector size.
>    scsi -f /dev/rsd0.ctl -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" # Format.
> 
>    "-P 3" select parameter set 3, the permanent ones.
> 
> Careful readers will note that this interface really *sucks*, and it's
> very easy to do something completely different than you intended.

Bless you Charles.  I shall be careful not to post to the NetBSD
lists again.

Peter

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