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Re: Seagate ST15150N formatting weirdness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Wed Jul 14 03:36:39 1999
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 14 Jul 1999 08:37:02 +0200
Raymond A. Ingles <inglesra@frc.com> wrote:
> I don't have the drive here, but ISTR it had a sticker on it, "formatted
> to 256 something". Could it be that the sector size is 256K and not 512K,
> and Linux can handle this and Windows/FAT can't? Any other suggestions?
I would be surprised if Linux did. MS-* certainly doesn't (anything
except NT doesn't support 1024 bytes/sector, where Linux has no
problem).
Most of those drives can be re-formatted (SCSI FORMAT UNIT command)
by changing the sector size just before through a MODE SELECT SCSI command.
I am a little surprised those still exist, though.
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