On Tue, 4 Jun 96 11:29:28 PDT 
 greywolf@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com wrote:

 > Jason Thorpe (.) sez:
 > 
 > # ...Gee, a libscsi sure would be nice :-)
 > 
 > Agreed.  It would be nice not to have to depart from NetBSD for the purposes
 > of formatting a disk, regardless of platform.

I really don't understand why folks thing formatting a disk is so 
difficult...all you need to so is send the unit a FORMAT UNIT command 
after setting the appropriate parameters with MODE SELECT.  A program 
about as long as the sdremap program I just posted would be able to do it :-)

Of course, the harder part is having a nice, well-integrated utility to 
do all of that for you.  That's why something like a libscsi would be 
nice; you can implement all the meat, and then layer a nice interface to 
the user on top of it.

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