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Date:      Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:32:02 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reformatting a 520-byte-per-sector drive
Message-ID:  <19990915083202.B30655@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909141845.MAA36540@panzer.kdm.org>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:45:32PM -0600
References:  <19990914124327.E10106@freebie.lemis.com> <199909141845.MAA36540@panzer.kdm.org>

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On Tuesday, 14 September 1999 at 12:45:32 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote...
>> On Tuesday,  7 September 1999 at 23:34:08 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
>>> 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.

That's what it's for :-)

Greg
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