Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 22:59:07 -0500 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Reformatting a 520-byte-per-sector drive Message-ID: <37D5DF0B.FFF98713@airnet.net>
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da3 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da3: <IBM 0663 s> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da3: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 12), Tagged Queueing Enabled da3: 957MB (1931265 520 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 943C) I want this to be 512 bytes/sector. I've tried to edit the modepage, but it comes up blank in vi. I'm going to guess that that means I can't change any of those parameters. :-) IBM's webpage <http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/0663x/0663xmso.htm>; on the drive says that I can change the number of blocks and the block size ("Block descriptor"). However, I don't seem to find anything in camcontrol's manpage to indicate how to go about changing it. Make no mistake about it, I can read the bytes/sector from modepage 0x03, but I can't change them. I know that Seagate has a few drives that can change bytes/sector. I'm currently perusing a manual from Seagate about SCSI-II/III but if someone else comes up with an answer sooner... PS: I'm not on -scsi. -- Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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