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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!mr.net!netnews.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!masternews.telia.net!newssrv.ita.tip.net!ubnnews.unisource.ch!not-for-mail From: Markus Zingg <m.zingg@nct.ch> Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Changing block size of SCSI Hard disks ? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 22:27:27 -0800 Organization: Unisource Business Networks Lines: 20 Message-ID: <332F874F.333C@nct.ch> References: <5gkgn5$6jm@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> <332E9F38.1C9D@nct.ch> <5gmqd1$foh@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: luzern_ppp29.tic.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01E -NOV-NOV (Win95; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:73480 comp.sys.hp.hpux:56303 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2856 Francois wrote: > > I did this, that is how I found out that almost everything in that page is > reserved. > Funny thing is on a SEAGATE ST32171W Baracuda Drive I can set the block > size to anything and the drive doesn't send me a check condition it > simply ignores it, confirmed by doing a mode sense with CDB byte 3 to 0xC3. Hmm I suggest asking the segate people. They have quite a good support. Look at their homepage. I guess their engineers can tell you if their drive accepts customized blocksizes or not. Sorry if this is only of limited help :-( Markus Zingg m.zingg@nct.ch