Last I looked there wasn't a sdformat or equivalent program in netbsd.  Has
one been added?


> Rebecca Ore writes:
>> Scsi format?  I made new file systems on both drives when I installed
>> NetBSD.  Is this something other than that?
> 
> Yes, its much different.  The newfs is simply writing the data parts
> of the sector.  The scsi-format writes the disk's sector headers.
> 
> In the old days Sun used to tell folks to do a scsi format from the
> Sun boot prom before you installed anything to the disk.
> 
> -wolfgang