11 Feb
2015
11 Feb
'15
5:18 p.m.
Can it read 'em at any blocksize too? Read is far more essential than write.
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 11, 2015, at 19:58, Lyle Bickley <lbickley
at bickleywest.com> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:04:58 -0500 (EST)
Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
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
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Bickley Consulting West Inc.
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On Wed,
11 Feb 2015, Roe Peterson wrote:
576 or 2304. > On Feb 11, 2015, at 4:16 PM, Cory Smelosky
<b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
What, actually, is the blocksize? 1024 or ?