[OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] SES support for Super Micro chassises?

[wessels]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> wessels <wessels147 at gmail.com> 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
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