From: Michael Stroucken <mxs@cmu.edu>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UltraStar fails detection with "Unsupported sector size 524"
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:33:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8D0ED2.8080005@cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19597.3653.893156.794645@pilspetsen.it.uu.se>
Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> I got a bunch of 72G IBM UltraStars that were taken from some
> kind of IBM storage server. The Linux kernel however doesn't
> like them, complaining about a non-512 byte sector size:
>
> According to the datasheets these drives have soft-configurable
> sector sizes from 512 up to 528 bytes, but they don't say how
> that configuration is done.
>
> Any ideas on how to reconfigure these drives for 512-byte sectors?
>
Low level format?
Greetings,
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-12 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-12 17:30 UltraStar fails detection with "Unsupported sector size 524" Mikael Pettersson
2010-09-12 17:33 ` Michael Stroucken [this message]
2010-09-12 17:58 ` Mikael Pettersson
2010-09-12 18:08 ` Michael Stroucken
2010-09-12 18:18 ` James Bottomley
2010-09-12 21:28 ` Mikael Pettersson
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