Mikael Pettersson wrote:
Michael Stroucken writes:
> Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > 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:
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> Low level format?
How would I do that in Linux? I assume it requires some
SCSI-specific tool, or perhaps even a vendor-specific one.
I've only done this in BSD before, but it looks like something like
http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html could be useful.
I don't know about the software configurability here, but normally you
would first need to update the firmware to something that understands
512b sectors, then low level format.
Greetings,
Michael.
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