I don't know, but I think it's trivial. If I remember well, fdisk shows the drive data under the expert menu, so ...
fdisk /dev/sdb x (go to expert menu) e (edit drive data) the first question is bytes/sector Please let us know if it works :) Ionut On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 01:17, Szieberth Denes wrote: > > scsiformat uses the /dev/sg* device, not /dev/sdb. Does this mean that > > the disk is not listed under /proc/scsi/scsi at all ? > > > > /proc/scsi/scsi: > > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST318451LW Rev: 0003 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 > Vendor: IBMAS400 Model: DGVS09U Rev: S9NA > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > The one I want to format is the second one. However, scsiinfo does not > work for any of the /dev/sg* devices (it works for /dev/sda), trying > scsiformat /dev/sg1 for blind resulted in: > > scsiformat (flushing disk buffers of /dev/sg1): Invalid argument > > any other idea? > > thanks > dino > > -- *************** * Ionut Georgescu * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ * Registered Linux User #244479 * * "In Windows you can do everything Microsoft wants you to do; in Unix * you can do anything your computer is able to do."
