Connectcom SCSI & RAID Devices Driver Download For Windows

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so i picked up a batch of these 146gb (Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L146 CLAR146 Rev: R58A) FC-AL drives from a fire sale.

i pop it into the machine when i notice this in dmesg:

ConnectCom Jul 1999 - Mar 2001 1 year 9 months. Responsible for hardware/software/systems engineering teams that developed a series of networking products. A 1394 adapter, and multiple. Advansys ABP5140 ISA scsi card. Any luck installing Advansys 3922 SCSI card in Win2k system. Another symbolic expression problem. Advansys SCSI card failing under Win2k. Advansys scsi adapter. Blue screen at install with advansys SCSI. Ctrl ctrl changes driver setting. Configuring 2 scsi cdrs and 1 scsi cdrom. SCSI Card Manufacturers Adaptec - Assorted SCSI devices Advansys - Fast, Ultra, Ultra Wide and Ultra 2 Wide ConnectCom Solutions - Fast, Ultra, Ultra Wide and Ultra 2 Wide LSI Logic - Symbios host adapters Tekram - Assorted SCSI devices. ConnectCom Solutions (Advanced System Products) Sep 1999 - Apr 2001 1 year 8 months. SCSI HBA, FC-2, FC-4, firmware, driver support. SCSI HBA, Windows Education.

wtf ??!!??

Connectcom SCSI & RAID Devices Driver Download For Windows

oh – thats right…clarion uses a sector size of 520 over the conventional 512.

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Connectcom

what to do now ?

fdisk & parted did not work.

here is what i did:
first, i installed sg3_utils (in gentoo sys-apps/sg3_utils):

so i now download a copy of setblocksize:

sweet !!! now lets convert the block size from 520 to 512:

now lets give this a quick reboot
dmesg output:

fdisk:

NICE!!!

i can now use my drives….

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UPDATE 01-02-2009:
sdb from above is now sda. installation was moved over using:

Connectcom Scsi Interface

tar cf - root folder | (cd /mnt/mounted partition; tar xvf -)
example: tar cf - bin boot dev (...and so on...) | (cd /mnt/sdaX; tar xvf -)
so now my fdisk output is: