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From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Subject: Re: Low-level reformat with different sector size: ?
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:50:29 -0400
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Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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?

Umm, I hope you don't consider losing all the previous data
on the disks when a re-format is performed as "screwing up"?

Doug Gilbert