Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:28:16 GMT From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Disktab and 2048 byte SCSI sectors? Message-ID: <34d36a6f.1274864@mail.cetlink.net>
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I have a Micropolis 9GB drive pre-formatted for 2048 byte sectors. I thought my SCSI adapter would change the sector size to 512 bytes when low-level formatting the drive, but it does not. I tried a different SCSI adapter to low-level format, and now the drive reports 2068 byte sectors. Ouch! Maybe the firmware on the drive won't support 512 byte sectors, I don't know. At this point I'm not even sure I can get it restored to 2048 byte sectors. With the right disktab entry, will FreeBSD be able to use the large sectors? And how does FreeBSD which disktab entry should be used for the drive? John ------- John The day of the proprietary OS is over. Long live free software.
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