Re: Low-level reformat with different sector size: ?

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On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 15:34 +0000, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 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?

We use this program go reformat 520 sector size disks back to 512:

http://parisc-linux.org/~jejb/blk512-linux.c

It should work for your device as well.  Beware it requires a complete
low level format to achieve this, which can take a very long time.

James


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