From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Sep 7 20:59:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B102114D77 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-34.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.34] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA29569 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:59:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37D5DF0B.FFF98713@airnet.net> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 22:59:07 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Reformatting a 520-byte-per-sector drive Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org da3 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da3: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da3: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 12), Tagged Queueing Enabled da3: 957MB (1931265 520 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 943C) I want this to be 512 bytes/sector. I've tried to edit the modepage, but it comes up blank in vi. I'm going to guess that that means I can't change any of those parameters. :-) IBM's webpage on the drive says that I can change the number of blocks and the block size ("Block descriptor"). However, I don't seem to find anything in camcontrol's manpage to indicate how to go about changing it. Make no mistake about it, I can read the bytes/sector from modepage 0x03, but I can't change them. I know that Seagate has a few drives that can change bytes/sector. I'm currently perusing a manual from Seagate about SCSI-II/III but if someone else comes up with an answer sooner... PS: I'm not on -scsi. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message