Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 May 1996 21:35:04 -0400 (EDT) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 520 byte sectors - any ideas? |
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On Sun, 26 May 1996, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> In linux.dev.kernel, article <01I4OVL7PA02EQOMZW@CRF.IT>, > a.vignani@crf.it writes: > > > > Seems that these disks are low-level formatted with a 520-byte sector > > size, which is correctly recognized by Linux on startup. [...] > > It should be possible to modify the SCSI driver to r/w the excess data > from/to some Random Area, given either an adapter which can do > scatter/gather or somebody who is willing to copy the block around once > again, but there's a better solution: Reformat.
or simply ignore the last 8 bytes. (you probably still need to modify the driver, putting in bogus (real_size-512) byte reads and writes here and there, and tweaking size values occasionally, but it should be quite straightforward).
btw, is reformatting possible for such drives?
-- mingo
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