Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: BLKSSZGET change will break fdisk | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 18 Oct 2000 23:13:57 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> writes:
Ralf> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:53:40AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: >> (By the way, have you checked that replacing get_sectorsize by an >> empty routine, and specifying a -b option, works well?) >> >> (Do you know which disks have unusual sector size? So far I had >> only seen reports on a Fujitsu 640 MB. Have you seen other >> sectorsizes than 512, 1024, 2048 on non-IBM disks?)
Ralf> Afair there is some older type of exchangable disk with 256 Ralf> bytes sectors made by Syquest. I also remember SCSI disks that Ralf> can be reformated with 4kb sectors.
I used to have an old Seagate 1GB 5 1/4" SCSI disk at CERN which had a 256 byte sector size. It's hopefully in the scrapyard now.
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