On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 04:29 PM, Drew Beckett wrote:
Be careful, though, because I've bought some of those drives from eBay that
had non-standard sector sizes in their firmware (in my case, 520 bytes
instead of 512). For some reason, I couldn't change the sector size using
any of the software tools I could find, and had to buy an Adaptec SCSI
controller for my PC and low-level format the drives. I tried low-level
formatting with one PC's Diamond FirePort 20 and another's BusLogic, but for
some reason only the Adaptec could fix the sectors. Those drives were IBM
DCHS-04F (Ultrastar 2XP), and they work great now, but fixing them was a
royal pain.
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