Re: how to change sector size on fibrechannel drives

[David Nedved <dnedved@nuvox.net>]

Thanks Scott, I'll check it out.  Also, I apologize for sending
this to linux-raid, I meant to type linux-scsi, but made a typo.

Thanks even more for answering an off-topic question!

David

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:34:54PM -0400, Scott Bisker wrote:
> 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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