Re: how to change sector size on fibrechannel drives

[Scott Bisker <scott@bisker.com>]

I know emulex has some utilities available for linux

http://www.emulex.com/ts/docfc/linuxframe.htm

I think the one you are looking for is lputil (LPUTIL).

-sb


On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 17:17, David Nedved wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've salvaged some drives from a MTI fibre channel RAID device, and I'm
> trying to use them in linux 2.4.18.  When the scsi module loads, it sees
> the drives, but reports them all as having the dreaded
> "unsupported sector size 528" message.  All the searches I've done seem
> to indicate a low-level format of the drives.   The FC card I'm using,
> however (Emulex LP8000), doesn't seem to have an option for low-level
> formatting.
> 
> My fibre channel toys are rather limited, in other words, I don't have
> any other controllers with which to low-level these drives.
> 
> Am I out of luck?  I wouldn't mind the inefficiency of only using 512
> of the 528 bytes in each block if there's some way to override the
> default setting... although I would much rather reformat them...
> 
> Oh, the drives are all ST136403FC drives if that matters.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any clues...
> 
> David
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