blocksize error on sa

[Dan Langille]

On 14 Sep 2003 at 23:18, Nate Lawson wrote:

> An anonymous person who knows more about sa(4) than me agreed it's
> probably a mode select problem with the drive:
> 
> > The 51000 is a piece of shit. With f/w varying all over the map.
> > My guess is that, yes, something in mode select isn't happening right.


Is "mode select problem" a reference to blocking modes (ie. variable 
or fixed)?  Is this something I can set at run time?  What else can I 
read?
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