On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 15:34 +0000, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Yesterday I managed to buy a couple of SCA disks with a sector size of ... > *drumroll* ... 524. > > What's the easiest way to re-format these to use 512 bytes? > Preferably without screwing up anything else on these things?
We use this program go reformat 520 sector size disks back to 512: http://parisc-linux.org/~jejb/blk512-linux.c It should work for your device as well. Beware it requires a complete low level format to achieve this, which can take a very long time. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
