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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!usenet From: ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Changing block size of SCSI Hard disks ? Date: 18 Mar 1997 08:09:18 GMT Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5glije$10ao@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <5gkgn5$6jm@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Folloup-To: comp.periphs.scsi Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:73318 comp.sys.hp.hpux:56138 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2834 In article <5gkgn5$6jm@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>, Francois <fdrolet@nortel.ca> writes: > I am trying to change the block size of a Quantum Atlas II(2.1GB) Hard Drive, > But it seems like the mode select page 3(Format device page) is not saveable > !!! > > Is there any way to change the block size for that drive ? I don't know about that specific driver, but many modern drivers only allow one block size. This is probably related to the error recovery procedures, which you need if you use high bit densities. -is