Hello, Yesterday I managed to buy a couple of SCA disks with a sector size of ... *drumroll* ... 524. What's the easiest way to re-format these to use 512 bytes? Preferably without screwing up anything else on these things? I tried sformat, which reported some rather broken data: # sformat sformat SCSI format/analysis/repair utilities Release 3.4, Copyright J. Schilling scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) 'S330L !' 'C0 P' '' Disk 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) 'S330L !' 'C0' 'P?' Disk 0,5,0 5) 'S330L !' 'C0`P# ' '?' Disk 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * Select target -1 (2 - 5)/<cr>:2 scsibus0 target 2: 0,2,0 0) 'S330L !' 'C0 P' '' Disk 0,2,1 1) * 0,2,2 2) * 0,2,3 3) * 0,2,4 4) * 0,2,5 5) * 0,2,6 6) * 0,2,7 7) * Select lun -1 (0 - 0)/<cr>:0 scsibus0 target 2 lun 0 Device type : Disk Version : 7 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'S330L !' Identifikation : 'C0 P' Revision : '' Device seems to be: Generic CCS Disk. sformat: PANIC Sectorsize. # ... Oops? Kernel: 2.6.22 (Ubuntu development) -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de - - I have seen the Great Pretender and he is not what he seems. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html