From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Low-level reformat with different sector size: ?
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:50:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183132245.3518.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f638pe$it6$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 15:34 +0000, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Yesterday I managed to buy a couple of SCA disks with a sector size of ...
> *drumroll* ... 524.
>
> What's the easiest way to re-format these to use 512 bytes?
> Preferably without screwing up anything else on these things?
We use this program go reformat 520 sector size disks back to 512:
http://parisc-linux.org/~jejb/blk512-linux.c
It should work for your device as well. Beware it requires a complete
low level format to achieve this, which can take a very long time.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-29 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-29 15:34 Low-level reformat with different sector size: ? Matthias Urlichs
2007-06-29 15:50 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-06-30 2:04 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-06-30 1:47 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-06-30 1:50 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-06-30 15:30 ` Matthias Urlichs
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