5 Nov
2010
5 Nov
'10
6:34 p.m.
On 11/5/10 5:56 PM, Nigel Williams wrote:
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Dave
McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
You need to write something to deal with non-512 byte blocks using low-level
SCSI commands. I had to do this to archive TI Explorer drives with 256 byte
sectors (done a LONG time ago as a Mac OS 9 app).
It's not difficult to do, you have to remember to build in a way to continue
and flag blocks that couldn't be read.
I think you'll be ok. The worst
that'll happen is you'll need to find a
fancy SCSI utility to reformat your drive while giving you a lot of control
over *how* it's reformatted.
Any suggestions of a name I should be seeking? I presume this means
that there is not something already open-source or built-into Linux (a
device driver that could be altered)? This latter aspect might need to
be explored since if I want to 'dd' the contents for a backup then I
would need to construct a way to save the extra bytes.