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

[George Adkins]

On Saturday 24 November 2001 12:17 am, you wrote:
> 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-(
>
perhaps special firmware is required for some monitoring functions or the 
like, but standard drives work just fine in the one I have.  Dave McGuire has 
(IIRC) also done the same thing with good results