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Can't initialize a drive with non-512 Byte sectors.
Posted by: quinnmacdonald on 2016-02-06 15:07:45
Apple Drive Setup 1.9.2 says it can't initialize my external 4 GB Seagate ST15150N SCSI HD because it can't initialize a drive with non-512 Byte sectors. How do I set it to have 512 byte sectors?

OS 9.2.2, beige G3 minitower

 
Posted by: quinnmacdonald on 2016-02-06 15:13:47
BTW I have Silverlining 5.7, FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 4.5.2, FWB HDT PE, various Drive Setups and Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.5 (patched to support 3rd party drives). I don't see an option in any of these to set the sector size. Am I looking in the wrong spot? The drive did work previously, and this happened once before. I don't remember how I solved it previously.

Posted by: trag on 2016-02-06 21:50:00
I think sector size is an option you set when you do a full format of a SCSI drive. Note that format is different from initialization. Proceed with extreme caution. I'm using very old memories here.

Posted by: butterburger on 2016-02-24 11:37:08
Are you sure Silverlining does not format your drive? Transoft SCSI Director looks like very nice software, perhaps you can try it.

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