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Re: INSTALL MPE on Seagate LDEV 1
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Jay Maynard <[log in to unmask]>
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Jay Maynard <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:32:38 -0500
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On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:27:12PM -0600, Miller, Keven wrote:
> Luckily I have an old HPUX box (G40) (which is what I really
> wanted to increase disk space to). HPUX didn't like them either
> but I could get some status from it (now I can't remember what
> command -- some scsi info program). It said the drive was
> formatted in 520 byte sectors, not 512.

Ah...these drives came out of an AS/400. It uses 520-byte sectors, with some
control information in the extra 8 bytes. Doing a low-level format witha
512-byte sector size will render them usable on normal systems.

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