Re: Linux dealing with IBM i blocksizes

Hello Jim,

Am 09.03.2020 um 23:13 schrieb Jim <jdonoghue04@xxxxxxxxx>:

To read/write those drives on Linux, you may need to use the program
'sg_dd'. It is not installed by default on some Linux distributions. It's
different from regular 'dd', it works by sending SCSI commands directly
instead of going through Linux's block layer.

'sg_dd' is part of a collection of utilities sometimes referred to as
'sgtools'.

Thanks a lot! This finally sheds a light on assertions I have heard
otherwise, that direct drive copies or writing a disk full with zeroes is
possible with Linux.

:wq! PoC

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