Re: GVP Series II SCSI

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Pieter Ennes wrote:
> > > Or could it be the geometry is wrong (it says 10 heads in cfdisk,
> > > which i know should be 1). Also most of the disks are 1024
> > > bytes/sector in stead of 512. Is that still a problem with the current
> > > kernel?
> >
> > That could indeed be a problem as of recent 2.4 kernels, try mounting via
> a
> > loop device.
>
> Well, i got it to work by formatting it with the wrong geometry,
> compensating for the 1024 byte disk blocks. It still fails on inquiry's. I
> saw there's  some stuff in the kernel about blacklisting drives that don't
> like being scanned in a specific manner. But i dont need that, the only
> inquiry that is fine is at boot time.
> Anyway, I don't see how looping it could help, but i'm probably wrong. Does
> that allow me to set different specs like blocksize?

The loop device allows you to access a device with a different blocksize than
its native blocksize.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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