Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 1998 02:08:35 +0800 | Subject | How to change sector size from 2068 to 512? | From | getlkl@terroris ... |
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# > [...] install process hangs when trying to probe the SCSI bus. # > When I try to look at the messages, I realise a kernel panic has # > taken place because the Elite 9 uses a sector/block size of 2068 # > (?!) and the kernel is unable to access it. Is anyone else using # > an Elite 9 and can someone supply a way around the problem. [...]
# [...] do a full low-level format of the drive. The 2068-byte-sector # mode appears to be a "undocumented" feature of Elite 9 which Seagate # won't admit to, and non-power-of-2 sectors isn't exactly easy to # support in Linux (understatement.)
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.
# However, the kernel shouldn't panic... it probably should set the disk # size to 0 in its tables, to allow the disk to be opened only to do a # format ioctl.
Well, that is what it said in the message log (which I get from the install console by pressing ctrl-alt-F3 or something like that): unable to allocate or some such in a kernel panic message.
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