Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!faui4n!wgstuken From: wgstuken@faui4n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Wolfgang Stukenbrock (Dipl. Zugangssystem Inf4)) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Need to format with bizzare block size Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 91 12:02:35 GMT References: <2285@shodha.enet.dec.com> Organization: University of Erlangen, Germany Lines: 11 ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder) writes: >Does anyone out there know of a SCSI controller (embedded or bridge) >which would allow me to format a drive with 576 (yes, that's 576) byte >blocks? Adaptec perhaps? MAXTOR drives XT4xxxS and XT8xxxS can be formatted to any blocksize between 196 (I'm not shure if this value is exact, but it is something around this) and 4096 byte/block! Up to now, I've never had any problems with them. Wolfgang