[rescue] Can a drive from an EMC be used an a SunBlade 2000

Jonathan Sturges jonathansturges at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 11 09:26:38 CST 2009


> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:58:50 -0800 (PST)

> From: stephen price 
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> Subject: Re: [rescue] Can a drive from an EMC be used an a SunBlade
>     2000
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> Usually all you have to do is change the sector size of the disk from 520 (emc
> proprietary) to 512 (normal) & reformat.
> 
> sformat (schilly tools) or scu (scsi
> command utility) normally work just fine.....
> 
> I also read somewhere long ago
> that format -e & then rewrite the label as SMI works too - but I've never
> tried that.
> 
> I've also done it with a pc and it works there also.
> 
> regards
> steve

I know where to find the Schilly tools... but where does "scu" live?  I don't think I've encountered that utility before.

-Jonathan



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