Subject: Re: format(8) ? Where is it?
To: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/24/2000 10:17:30
	Try 'scsictl sdX format', or 'scsictl sdX reassign blkno'


		David/absolute
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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:

> Is there any user level version of format for SCSI ? I was playing with a 
> SyQuest SQ555 drive on my VAX and one of the cartridges has a couple of bad 
> sectors on it. I would use badsect to hide them except that one of them is 
> where newfs wants to put a spare inode.
> 
> --Chuck
> 
>