Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 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,
Have a look at sg_format in the sg3_utils package.
Assuming you want to reformat /dev/sdc to 512 byte sector
size the you could use:
sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/sdc
See sg_format's man page for more information.
Doug Gilbert
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