From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Stroucken Subject: Re: UltraStar fails detection with "Unsupported sector size 524" Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:08:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4C8D172A.1020100@cmu.edu> References: <19597.3653.893156.794645@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> <4C8D0ED2.8080005@cmu.edu> <19597.5297.146253.996923@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from tamade.ascient.net ([65.99.219.195]:60455 "EHLO tamade.ascient.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751663Ab0ILSJg (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:09:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <19597.5297.146253.996923@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Michael Stroucken writes: > > 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? > > How would I do that in Linux? I assume it requires some > SCSI-specific tool, or perhaps even a vendor-specific one. > > I've only done this in BSD before, but it looks like something like http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html could be useful. I don't know about the software configurability here, but normally you would first need to update the firmware to something that understands 512b sectors, then low level format. Greetings, Michael.