Re: hard drive problem
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
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