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From: wgstuken@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Wolfgang Stukenbrock )
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SCSI drive format
Keywords: SCSI, format
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.125439.16157@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 31 Jan 91 12:54:39 GMT
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mkoprows@ub.d.umn.edu (Mark) writes:

> ...
>was wondering if there are SCSI drives that use something other than 512
>bytes/block and if there are ...

Of cause most SCSI drives can be formatted with different blocksizes!

This is a parameter can be selected in the mode-pages or direct with
the format command (on SCSI bus).

Wolfgang