I got a bunch of 72G IBM UltraStars that were taken from some kind of IBM storage server. The Linux kernel however doesn't like them, complaining about a non-512 byte sector size: scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access IBM IC35L073UCDY10-0 S27N PQ: 0 ANSI: 3 scsi target0:0:1: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16. scsi target0:0:1: Beginning Domain Validation scsi target0:0:1: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (50 ns, offset 8) scsi target0:0:1: Domain Validation skipping write tests scsi target0:0:1: Ending Domain Validation sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Unsupported sector size 524. (that's from the 2.6.35 kernel's SYM53C8XX_2) According to the datasheets these drives have soft-configurable sector sizes from 512 up to 528 bytes, but they don't say how that configuration is done. Any ideas on how to reconfigure these drives for 512-byte sectors? /Mikael -- 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
