Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 520 byte sectors - any ideas? | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Date | Sun, 26 May 1996 22:21:02 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Hi,
Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> It should be possible to modify the SCSI driver to r/w the excess data >> from/to some Random Area, given either an adapter which can do >> scatter/gather or somebody who is willing to copy the block around once >> again, but there's a better solution: Reformat. > >or simply ignore the last 8 bytes.
That might not be as easy as it sounds...
>btw, is reformatting possible for such drives? > Except if they have proprietary and weird firmware, yes.
Apple had such firmware in the early days of their SCSI implementation, but they've since learned better...
-- Science is a history of superseded theories. -- Matthias Urlichs
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