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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!torn!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!bmerhc5e.bnr.ca!news From: Francois <fdrolet@nortel.ca> Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Changing block size of SCSI Hard disks ? Date: 17 Mar 1997 22:31:01 GMT Organization: Bell Northern Research Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5gkgn5$6jm@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bmerh11.bnr.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712) X-URL: news:comp.periphs.scsi/58306-58505 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:73409 comp.sys.hp.hpux:56206 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2846 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 ? BTW: Which Unix tools do you use to perform these operations (mediainit??)] Thanks Francois fdrolet@nortel.ca