Thanks Scott, I'll check it out. Also, I apologize for sending this to linux-raid, I meant to type linux-scsi, but made a typo. Thanks even more for answering an off-topic question! David On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:34:54PM -0400, Scott Bisker wrote: > 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 -- __ __ __ _ __ __ __ __ ____ __ __ _ ____ __ / | /, | / / // // | / |/ // __// | / / // __// | / / // // / // // / / / , ' // _/ / / // / // _/ / / / /___//_/_/ |__//_//___/ /_/|__//___//___/ |__//___//___/ Unix Systems Engineer VOICE: +1 864 331 8181 NuVox Communications, Inc. FAX: +1 864 331 7234 301 North Main Street, Ste 5000 EMAIL: dnedved@nuvox.net Greenville, SC 29601 USA PAGER: pagenedved@nuvox.net - 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
