Subject: Re: BAD BLOCKS WITH SCSI DISKS, HOW TO REMAP
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/04/1996 21:53:11
>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
> > purpose of formatting a disk, regardless of platform.

>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.

Doesn't FreeBSD have some of these pieces?  It wouldn't be too hard to
pull those over, would it?

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