Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:54:16 -0400 | From | Ric Wheeler <> | Subject | Re: tools support for non-512 byte sector sizes |
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Martin K. Petersen wrote: >>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> writes: >>>>>> > > James> The problem, which ata_ram also suffers, is that the tools we > James> most need to test are the ones for manipulating non volatile > James> characteristics (like partition tables). We'd really like the > James> disk contents to survive reboot for this ... > > Yeah, I should add that I wanted persistence too. I went through a > whole stack (well, 5-6 or so) fibre channel drives from various > vendors and attempted to low-level format them to 4KB sectors. Most > of them laughed in my face. One of them tried to comply and > irreparably confused its firmware in the process. > > Just yesterday I received a couple of prototype drives in the mail. > I'll ask the vendor whether they support 4KB and if so I'll give them > a whirl. > Isn't this a great use case for a SCSI target device where our target can be a software disk on a remote host? What is missing for us to put something like that together?
ric
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