Re: 520 byte sectors - any ideas?
Eric Youngdale (eric@aib.com)
Tue, 28 May 1996 08:57:33 -0400
>It should be possible to modify the SCSI driver to r/w the excess data
>from/to some Random Area, given either an adapter which can do
>scatter/gather or somebody who is willing to copy the block around once
>again, but there's a better solution: Reformat.
Frankly I don't think it is worth the trouble to teach linux to
use 520 byte sectors. I agree that reformatting (or dumping the drive
in the trash if this fails) is probably the best solution.
-Eric
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