Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 15:54:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey <grog> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: scsi Subject: Re: Setting disk sector size? Message-ID: <199607272254.PAA09991@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199607272120.XAA02494@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 27, 96 11:20:19 pm
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> > 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.) 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. Greg
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