sformat can handle SCSI fibre channel drives. I've used it on a bunch of 36G
drives that 520 byte sectors myself. They catch is with some drives you do
lose some capacity since it doesn't do some of the fancier low level formats
and it does have limits on larger drives.
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 06:51 pm, simon wrote:
hello
I have a sparc ultra 2 and i'm running a 2.4.19 linux kernel...
I use two sca hard disks (not originals)... with one... no problems
but with the second, i have this error at boot :
SCSI device sda: 0 520-byte hdwr sectors (0 MB)
sda: unsupported sector size 520
and then the disk is remove from the filesysteme... all tools like
scsiformat, fdisk needs an /dev entry...
I suspect this disk to come from an array of disks or something like
that...
I don't have other computer able to perform the format...
if someone has an idea to solve my problem, he is welcome...
thanks by advance
simon
