Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:37:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: scsi@freebsd.org Cc: grog@freefall.freebsd.org (Greg Lehey) Subject: Re: Setting disk sector size? Message-ID: <199607280637.IAA06933@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199607272254.PAA09991@freefall.freebsd.org> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 27, 96 03:54:37 pm"
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As Greg Lehey wrote: > Yes, I have no doubt that I'll need to reformat. That's not the > problem, I just want to know how to set the block size first. I've just checked with my old scratch disk (a flakey Maxtor MXT-1240S), and this one lets me specify a sector size on the Rigid Disk Geometry page (using scsi -e). The size will be reverted to the current size if i'm performing some IO on the drive. I'm now reformatting... So if your IBM drive doesn't do it this way, they will most likely abuse a vendor-specific mode page for this. You have to get this information from the vendor then. -- 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. ;-)
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