From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: Low-level reformat with different sector size: ? Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:50:44 -0400 Message-ID: <1183132245.3518.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:37767 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763220AbXF2Pus (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:50:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthias Urlichs Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.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