On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Marco Peereboom <sl...@peereboom.us> wrote: > I would love to get my hands on such a drive :-) > > EMC uses the same magic; they cram stuff in the additional 8 bytes.
I inherited a couple of shelves from an old EMC setup, and ended up using Seagate's SeaTools Enterprise Edition to reformat them from 520 to 512 byte sectors. It looks like it can do 512, 520, 1024, or "user defined" bytes per block. If you actually want one, I've got some old 9GB 80pin Seagate Cheetahs I could convert, or I might even have one of the 36GB FibreChannel drives from the EMC shelf that wasn't converted. As an aside, I used a shelf with ten of the 36GB drives to see if they would be reasonably useful as a softraid set. Worked great, but the operating cost would have been about $200/year -- Jon
