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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: sara@procsys.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch> Date: 12 Apr 2000 18:30:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: Alan Cox's message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:25:49 +0100 (BST)" Message-ID: <d3vh1ngu40.fsf@lxplus013.cern.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: >> We have a custom storage controller. It has configurable >> sector_size. When configured to 1K, fdisk goes through ok. Buf >> mkfs gives errors shown below. >> >> Does Linux kernel support non 512 sector_size. Does tools >> mkfs/fsck and filesystems run properly on such storage devices? Alan> They do. You need to tell them to use that block size Alan> sometimes. Eg fdisk needs to be told to use 1K block scaling The older kernels would work with SCSI 256 byte hardware sectors, whereas 2.3.x didn't last I tried. Then again, the number of disks left in the world with this 'feature' is probably so limited these days that it's not even worth bothering. Jes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
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