[rhelv6-beta-list] Anyone can explain more details of that?

[Tom Coughlan]

On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 16:28 -0400, Luke S Crawford wrote:
> Brian Long <brilong at cisco.com> writes:
> 
> > Sounds like the 520-byte-per-sector fibre channel drives NetApp started
> > selling many years ago.  When I tried connecting the drives to a Linux
> > host 3 years ago, the kernel wouldn't acknowledge the
> > non-512-byte-per-sector drives.
> 
> 
> I had some of those disks used... I was able to low-level format them
> with 512 byte sectors and use them in a regular JBOD san.  

My guess is that those drives were used with a vendor-specific version
of what eventually made its way into the SCSI Standard. 

Tom