Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:35:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu> To: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> Cc: FreeBSD SCSI <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IBM 36gig drive (SUMMARY) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0404290833070.9428-100000@mendeleev.hamline.edu> In-Reply-To: <200404291321.i3TDLaWO009984@siralan.org>
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Thanks all for your help regarding this issue. The simple thing to do, like many of you suggested, was to reformat the drives using the scsi controller's bios. After reformating, all the drives are now 512 byte sectors. The draw back doing it this way is that you can only do one at a time. It is done in any case. thanks robert On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Michael L. Squires wrote: > > "da1: invalid sector size 520" > > The SCSIBOOT boot disk (as in Bart's Boot Disk), www.nu2.nu has an option > to reformat drives with a 520 byte sector to 512; I don't know if it has > the drivers for your controller. The SCSI utility also allows formatting > all the drives at once, which I did with my array of 4 Seagate 46GB drives. > > MLS >
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