From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: how to change sector size on fibrechannel drives Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 19:56:55 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D093147.3C64CB43@torque.net> References: <20020613093514.B25071@nuvox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: David Nedved Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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 in the BIOS. I've also tried the lputil command that comes with > the driver, but it seems to have trouble finding the adapter, and it doesn't > seem to have any utilities that would help me anyway. > > My fibre channel toys are rather limited, in other words, I don't have > any other controllers with which to low-level these drives. In a pinch > I could probably find a wintel machine to throw the card into if I had to > in order to low-level format the drives, but this would be rather hard > since I don't have any windows machines. > > 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. David, Have a look at the scu utility at this url: http://www.bit-net.com/~rmiller/scu.html You should be able to use the format to resize your sectors. Doug Gilbert