Hello !!
I want to know , how to change SAS hard disk's sector size ?????
From 520 Byte to 512 Byte and vice versa .

Is there a way to do this ?????

I want to change sector size of Hitachi and Seagate SAS hard disk !!!!
Thanks for your help !!!!

Maybe this?

http://linux.die.net/man/8/sg_format

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thanks !!
I try this command but did not work !!!

Do you know another way ????

thanks !!
but this command did not work correctly !!
do you know another way ????

It's possible that some firmware versions have a hard coded sector size of 520 and refuse the setting.


What OEM & FW are they?

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Try the enterprise version of SeaTools.

The following URLs are old, but you should be able to find something more current:

http://forums.storagereview.com/index.p ... 0-sectors/
ftp://ftp.psu.ac.th/pub/seagate/sthelp.txt
ftp://ftp.psu.ac.th/pub/seagate/st

If using Seagate's Linux tool ...

st -B 520 /dev/ice

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hello

If i change the sector size from 520 bytes to 512 bytes , can i change it to 520 bytes again ???

Of course

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thanks !! but these ways did not useful !!!

i could not change the sector size !!!!!!!

do you know any offer ?

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Post logs and/or screen shots of the failure.

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.