On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > wessels <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm wasn't aware of your scsi tools in cdrtools. The name is somewhat >> misleading. A few days ago I wrote a post to zfs-discuss on methods >> for resizing disks in order to ensure an equal size between different >> disks. I suggested the sg3_utils in that post. Can your tools resize a >> disk and restore it's capacity as well? I don't have time to look into >> your tools at the moment. If so I'll post a follow up and include your >> tools as well. > > What do you understand by rezising? Sorry for the typo. By resizing I mean to format the drive to a capacity equal or less than it's maximum size. When a READ CAPACITY (opcode 0x25) is issued the formatted size is returned not the maximum capacity. This is also called short-stroking. > > sformat includes support to manage the defect management parameters and that > will have effect on the net size of a disk. > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > [email protected] (uni) > [email protected] (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily >
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