[4938] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: 2K sectors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Brioschi)
Sat Oct 17 20:43:51 1998
From: capo@writeme.com (William Brioschi)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.95.981013131349.60904E-100000@werner.exp-math.uni-essen.de> from "Dr. Michael Weller" at "Oct 13, 98 01:23:11 pm"
To: eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de (Dr. Michael Weller)
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 16:09:20 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: capo@writeme.com, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
> > In the 2.1 series kernel, the disk and low-level drivers should
> > already (in theory) handle this case. I don't have such a disk, so I
>
> There were patches for older kernels doin a similar thing around, yet they
> were not perfect (hence not put in 2.0 mainstream kernels)
I indeed applied a patch to 2.0.30 (as suggested by Ronald Wahl), and it
works fine.
I did not even try to reformat the media, as many peaople told me it wasn't
possible.
[sequential]
> > This absolutely won't work. The generics driver simply doesn't
> > work like this.
>
> Yep, a plain "tar cf /dev/sga" does not work. Linux does not have the
It seems to work with "tar cv /dev/sda", at least it doesn't give any error
messages. Yet "tar tvf /dev/sda" did not produce any output.
I really didn't stop too much on tar, as it works well with the ext2
filesystem.
Ciao, William
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