11 Feb
2015
11 Feb
'15
4:58 p.m.
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:04:58 -0500 (EST)
Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Roe Peterson wrote:
576 or 2304.
The "scu" utility, which is available for both NT and linux
environments can change the blocksize - and scads of other parameters
on most SCSI disks. It's powerful enough that you can brick a drive
if you're not careful ;)
I used to buy NOS Tandem SCSI HDD dirt cheap because they had a weird
blocksize that would make Windows/Linux systems barf. I would then
use "scu" to change the blocksize parameter of the drive to 512 - and do
a low level format. Then I'd have a "standard" SCSI HDD for a fraction
of the price of a "standard" drive.
Of course you could change the blocksize of a drive to 576 - or
anything you wanted - and then do a low level format for that blocksize.
You can pickup scu for NT and linux (including help and summary pdfs)
by anonymous ftp to my website via certain browsers or:
ftp bickleywest.com
user: anonymous
password: your email address
cd scu
....
Regards,
Lyle
--
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
On Feb 11, 2015, at 4:16 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4
at gewt.net> wrote:
What, actually, is the blocksize? 1024 or ?
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Al Kossow wrote:
> On 2/11/15 1:56 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> netbooting NetBSD (install doable for that one.)
You'll need to put something together that can talk to the raw
scsi interface and issue your own read commands. Are they common
command set drives?
Should be. I don't believe CompuServe did anything too silly.