From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 1 08:09:17 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA26974 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 May 1995 08:09:17 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA26959 for ; Mon, 1 May 1995 08:09:11 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id LAA21921; Mon, 1 May 1995 11:07:17 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199505011507.LAA21921@hda.com> Subject: Re: formatting a scsi disk To: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 11:07:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: bmk@dtr.com, john@starfire.mn.org, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505011500.IAA07183@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at May 1, 95 08:00:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 649 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Justin T. Gibbs writes: > > These types of programs are really useful. Is there any interest in > having a "scsi-format" or "mode-page-tweeker" in the distribution? The > more I can do in FreeBSD, the less often I have to dust off my DOS > floppy... :) We do: It is scsi(8). Look at the "-m" option in -current for examining your mode pages; I'll fix that when I have time to support "-e" for editing as well. scsiformat(8) will be a script, or a "-F" option to scsi(8). -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267