I know emulex has some utilities available for linux http://www.emulex.com/ts/docfc/linuxframe.htm I think the one you are looking for is lputil (LPUTIL). -sb On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 17:17, David Nedved wrote: > Hi All, > > I've salvaged some drives from a MTI fibre channel RAID device, and I'm > trying to use them in linux 2.4.18. When the scsi module loads, it sees > the drives, but reports them all as having the dreaded > "unsupported sector size 528" message. All the searches I've done seem > to indicate a low-level format of the drives. The FC card I'm using, > however (Emulex LP8000), doesn't seem to have an option for low-level > formatting. > > My fibre channel toys are rather limited, in other words, I don't have > any other controllers with which to low-level these drives. > > Am I out of luck? I wouldn't mind the inefficiency of only using 512 > of the 528 bytes in each block if there's some way to override the > default setting... although I would much rather reformat them... > > Oh, the drives are all ST136403FC drives if that matters. > > Thanks in advance for any clues... > > David > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
