[rescue] Low-level format w/520 byte sectors?

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Nov 23 23:17:07 CST 2001


On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:27:35PM -0800, David Passmore wrote:
> A friend at SGI claims that the 520-byte size is required from the factory,
> and that it's possible that the drives require special firmware (and hence
> only IBM DHCS drives would be supported).

He's right.  We have one of the SGI-badged 2100/2200 arrays.  I wish I 
knew where to get a replacement SP; one of ours has failed. 8-(

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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