[lug] SCSI disk info

[Alan Robertson]

Ken Weinert wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 	I'm installing SuSE 7.3 on a Sparcstation 2 and so far that is working OK - 
> what I'm trying to do is to add another HD that is somewhat larger than the 
> old 450M drive in it now.
> 
> 	I'm running into a problem tho:
> 
> sdb : unsupported sector size 520.
> scsi : deleting disk entry.
> 
> 	So my question is this: what method can I use to "reformat" (?) the disk to 
> a supported number of sectors? I suspect this will have to be some method 
> other than booting into the SCSI controller :)


I don't think it's the size of the disk, but the fact that it seems to be 
formatted with 520 byte blocks instead of the usual 512 byte blocks.  This 
is a pain to fix.  You basically have to know what SCSI commands to issue to 
the disk, and then issue them through a passthrough interface.  I think 
Linux supports passthrough commands in some form.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at unix.sh