Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 13:50:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: grog@freefall.freebsd.org (Greg Lehey) Cc: scsi@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting disk sector size? Message-ID: <199607281150.NAA18235@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199607270129.SAA23083@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Greg Lehey" at Jul 26, 96 06:29:12 pm
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As Greg Lehey wrote... > > A friend of mine just turned up with a Tandem disk drive (looks for > all the world like an IBM :-) which has 514 byte sectors. He also has > another one with 516 byte sectors. By all accounts we can change that > to 512 with 'scsi -m 3 -p 3 -e', except that the driver gets all > uptight about the 514 byte sectors and doesn't get as far as reading > the mode page. scsiformat can report the format, so there must be > some way to do read the information, and I suspect there's also a way > to set it. Does anybody have any ideas? I had the same experience. I went to a DEC Unix box with my 518 byte Micropolis and changed it there. A subsequent SCSI format did the rest Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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