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Re: Problem with MO in 2.2.16

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Jun 20 18:20:47 2000

To: berberic@fmi.uni-passau.de (M G Berberich)
Date:	Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:15:55 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <20000620223448.A472@avaloon.fmi.uni-passau.de> from "M G Berberich" at Jun 20, 2000 10:34:48 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

>   SCSI device sda: hdwr sector=3D 2048 bytes. Sectors=3D 310352 [606 MB] [0=
> .6 GB]

It found the device, got the size right

>   sda: Write Protect is on
>    sda: sda: RESETTINGING SECTOR SCALE from 4 to 1 sda1

This means it found a partition table it thought was bogus. It should be
in terms of 2K blocks it felt it was in terms of 512 byte blocks

>   sd.c:Bad block number/count requestedscsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, secto=
> r 0
>   sd.c:Bad block number/count requestedscsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, secto=

Looks like it then tried to read a 512 byte block not a 2K block

> I'm a bit irritated by the message stating: 'RESETTINGING SECTOR
> SCALE from 4 to 1 sda1' )the 640MB MO's are hardsectored to 2048
> bytes).

Partition scaling not disk 

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