From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Jul 27 14:34:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA05121 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 14:34:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA05106 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 14:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA02432; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 23:32:44 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA05281; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 23:32:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA02494; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 23:20:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607272120.XAA02494@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Setting disk sector size? To: scsi@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 23:20:19 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: grog@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from j at "Jul 27, 96 07:32:58 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As I wrote: > As Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Unfortunately, 'scsi -f > > /dev/rsd0.ctl -m 3 -P 3 -e' gives me a blank file to edit. > > Bad luck then. This means there are no editable fields at all on this > mode page. (scsi -e only offers you those fields that are marked as > writable by the device.) Thinking more about it, and reading in the specs, this sounds logical. You _might_ however be able to modify the current setting of the physical block size, but in order to get the new block size in effect, you have to reformat. (The SCSI-2 specs explicitly allow this, and it seems to be useful.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)