Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:43:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: SCSI SEAGATE 9GB (Screwy) OEM Drives, w/ 2068 byte block |
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Hello Andre, Is this by chance marked 'Storage Dimensions' if they are then this is what happened to them . This should be able to be gotten around with 'Michael Wellers' scsiinfo-1.7 tools . from :
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/scsiinfo-1.7.tar.gz
I didn't find the location on sunsite.unc.edu :-}
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Andre M. Hedrick wrote: > Anyone, > > Has anyone seen, ST 410800W Elite 9 Fast SCSI-2 Wide, (I have one) with > a block_length of "2068" bytes/sector and not the standard 512 byte block. > > I need to re-something this puppy. SEAGATE denies the existance of a > 2068 byte block size. I need a "quick and dirty/nasty" to allow this guy > to be mounted. Second, is there a suggested tool for rewriting this > block size and doing a hard low-level format. > > Cheers, > Andre Hedrick Hth, JimL +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere - Network Engineer - babydr@nwrain.net | | System Techniques - 25416 - 22nd S. - Des-Moines, WA 98198 | | Give me VMS -or- Give me Linux -but- only on AXP | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |-> Linux-Vax Port, Now in Progress !YAY! there's Progress To Report <-| |-> Please See http://ucnet.canberra.edu.au/~mikal/vaxlinux/home.html <-| |-> Maintainer: Michael Still mikal@blitzen.canberra.edu.au <-| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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