Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:45:32 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: kris@airnet.net (Kris Kirby), scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reformatting a 520-byte-per-sector drive Message-ID: <199909141845.MAA36540@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <19990914124327.E10106@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Sep 14, 1999 12:43:27 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Greg Lehey wrote... > On Tuesday, 7 September 1999 at 23:34:08 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > Kris Kirby wrote... > >> 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... > > > > Well, I think with most IBM disks you can change the blocksize from mode > > page 3, but apparantly with this one you have to do it from the block > > descriptor. It sounds similar to the Seagate disk that Greg used the above > > command on. > > > > Since you've got to format your disk anyway, you might want to try out my > > format patches to camcontrol. They've been sitting around for months in my > > tree, and as far as I know, no one (except me) has tried them. Here they > > are: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/~ken/camcontrol.format.061799 > > I tried them. They seemed to work OK, but I had some library > dependency problems. Yeah, you have to rebuild libcam and then rebuild camcontrol. I forgot to tell Kris about that. > > I think the patches should apply okay to -current or -stable, but if they > > don't it shouldn't be too hard to get them to apply. > > > > One warning, though -- in your situation, you'll probably want to use the > > -q option to camcontrol format. The reason is, without "quiet" turned on, > > camcontrol will do an inquiry on your disk, which may nullify any block > > setting you just made, if your disk behaves anything like Greg's Seagate. > > Are you planning to commit these patches? I'd think it's worth it. Well, I'll probably have to to get any more feedback. I want to go through the patches one more time and clean things up before I do that, though. Maybe if I let them sit in -current for a couple of months, I'll get some feedback. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199909141845.MAA36540>