Re: Low-level reformat with different sector size: ?

2007-06-30 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:50:29 -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Umm, I hope you don't consider losing all the previous data > on the disks when a re-format is performed as "screwing up"? *Giggle* As I just got the disk, have no idea what's on it, and can't read it in any case (OK, so I could use /de

Re: Low-level reformat with different sector size: ?

2007-06-29 Thread Douglas Gilbert
James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 15:34 +, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> Yesterday I managed to buy a couple of SCA disks with a sector size of ... >> *drumroll* ... 524. >> >> What's the easiest way to re-format these to use 512 bytes? >> Preferably without screwing up anything else

Re: Low-level reformat with different sector size: ?

2007-06-29 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I managed to buy a couple of SCA disks with a sector size of ... > *drumroll* ... 524. > > What's the easiest way to re-format these to use 512 bytes? > Preferably without screwing up anything else on these things? Umm, I hope you don't consider los

Re: Low-level reformat with different sector size: ?

2007-06-29 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I managed to buy a couple of SCA disks with a sector size of ... > *drumroll* ... 524. > > What's the easiest way to re-format these to use 512 bytes? > Preferably without screwing up anything else on these things? > > I tried sformat, which reporte

Re: Low-level reformat with different sector size: ?

2007-06-29 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 15:34 +, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Yesterday I managed to buy a couple of SCA disks with a sector size of ... > *drumroll* ... 524. > > What's the easiest way to re-format these to use 512 bytes? > Preferably without screwing up anything else on these things? We use this

Low-level reformat with different sector size: ?

2007-06-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hello, Yesterday I managed to buy a couple of SCA disks with a sector size of ... *drumroll* ... 524. What's the easiest way to re-format these to use 512 bytes? Preferably without screwing up anything else on these things? I tried sformat, which reported some rather broken data: # sformat sfor