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Date:      Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:00:15 -0400
From:      Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: where is scsiformat ? 
Message-ID:  <199906141600.AA158746016@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Jun 1999 02:55:25 %2B0300." <19990612025525.A59135@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> 

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>> > This seems like a silly question, but where do I find the scsiformat
>> > program shown on p. 184 of the Lehey book?  I have both a 3.0 and 3.1
>> > system and cannot find it on either...
>> 
>> scsiformat was probably superceded by CAM.  I have the manpage on my
>> upgraded workstation, but I can't find any references to it or any similar
>> camcontrol(8) subcommand.
>> 
>
>It's from camcontrol(8):
>
>*       camcontrol cmd -n da -u 3 -v -t 7200 -c "4 0 0 0 0 0"
>* 
>* Send the FORMAT UNIT (0x04) command to da3.  This will low-level format
>* the disk.  Print sense information if the command fails, and set the
>* timeout to two hours (or 7200 seconds).

I was about to say "the above does not appear in camcontrol(8)", but
I finally found it.  It was added in 3.2-R.  It does not appear in 3.0-R
or 3.1-R.  Thanks.

-Mitch



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