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SubjectRe: How to change sector size from 2068 to 512?
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Followup to:  <199808231808.CAA27283@terrorist.math.ntu.edu.tw>
By author: getlkl@terrorist.math.ntu.edu.tw
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Can you tell me how do I reformat a SCSI disk to a different
> sector size? It appears that I can't get such a parameter changed in
> my the SCSI BIOS of my Symbiosis875 controller. Can it be done with
> an AHA-2940? Many thanks for any tips/pointers.
>

On most SCSI BIOSes and utilities, if you do a low-level reformat it
will always format to the standard 512-byte sector size. I'd try that
first. Otherwise you may want to snoop around for a DOS SCSI utility
and boot DOS from a floppy.

Note that all the data on the disk will be lost, of course.

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