Re: good sources of 1" 80 pin new SCSI drives

Ethan Dicks <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:31:43 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Hessel Keegstra
<[email protected]> wrote:
> However, the "cheaper" drives without SUN firmware that are available on places like eBay and others are usually drives originally shipped for large SAN arrays (EMC et al) that utilize a non-standard sector size other then 512 bytes....

I used to use an Adaptec 1542C ISA SCSI controller to do that to 4GB
drives.  Dunno if any of the PCI controllers have the right firmware
to do that or not, but it's another possible way of reblocking odd
drives.

-ethan