Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:45:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey <grog> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: scsi Subject: Re: Setting disk sector size? Message-ID: <199607281545.IAA27303@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199607281150.NAA18235@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Jul 28, 96 01:50:17 pm
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> > As Greg Lehey wrote... > > > > A friend of mine just turned up with a Tandem disk drive (looks for > > all the world like an IBM :-) which has 514 byte sectors. He also has > > another one with 516 byte sectors. By all accounts we can change that > > to 512 with 'scsi -m 3 -p 3 -e', except that the driver gets all > > uptight about the 514 byte sectors and doesn't get as far as reading > > the mode page. scsiformat can report the format, so there must be > > some way to do read the information, and I suspect there's also a way > > to set it. Does anybody have any ideas? > > I had the same experience. I went to a DEC Unix box with my 518 byte > Micropolis and changed it there. A subsequent SCSI format did the rest Yes, we have this option too (with a Tandem box, of course), and if things get too hard I'll do just that. But I didn't want to give up without a fight :-) Greg
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