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From: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
Subject: Re: convert 520 byte sector disk to 512 byte sector?
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:52:42 -0700
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To: "Cress, Andrew R" <andrew.r.cress@intel.com>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>, Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:32:33AM -0700, Cress, Andrew R wrote:
> You can set the block descriptor as part of the mode page file using sgmode
> from
>   http://scsirastools.sourceforge.net

Andrew,
no - this won't work for many of the Seagate drives.
The "mask" for format mode page is mostly zeros.
See my blk512-linux.c at:
	ftp://gsyprf10.external.hp.com/pub/scsi/blk512

(older code is at .../blk512_old)

thanks,
grant