On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:38:36 +0100 (CET) 
 Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net> wrote:

 > Is there some magic incantation to SRM or some means within -current
 > to tell a SCSI drive to go format itself?

I have some patches to the scsictl(8) program to do drive formatting,
which I have not yet committed (because they aren't quite finished, but
they should allow you to do a basic format).

Wanna test 'em?  :-)

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