Re: GVP Series II SCSI

[Pieter E. <pi...@ba...>]

Hi there,

> > 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.

Oh, i really tried :) but couldn't find out how to do just that...
On i386 there's an fdisk option -b 1024 which would help me i guess, but
neither cfdisk nor the apus version of fdisk have such a thing. Anyway the
disk works, i just have to set the geometry by hand...

Thanks and bye, Pieter...