Force Logical Block size for HDD pulled from external enclourse

So I pulled a 3tb hitachi drive from an external enclourse, and the usb-to-sata board in the enclourse forced a logical sector size of 4K for the drive. But connecting directly to the drive exposes the logical sector size to 512 bytes. Resulting in me being unable to mount the partition. So what I am asking is, is there a way to force the logical sector size for a drive to be different than the drive exposes or am I going to have to move everything off the drive and reformat it?
The enclourse in question:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6822145510
Direct:
[73828.076447] sd 0:0:1:2: [sdl] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[73838.912744] scsi 0:0:1:2: Direct-Access Hitachi HDS723030ALA640 R001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[73838.912889] sd 0:0:1:2: [sdo] 5860533168 512-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
[73838.912892] sd 0:0:1:2: Attached scsi generic sg12 type 0
[73838.912995] sd 0:0:1:2: [sdo] Write Protect is off
[73838.912999] sd 0:0:1:2: [sdo] Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08
[73838.913042] sd 0:0:1:2: [sdo] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[73838.949343] sdo: sdo1
[73838.949614] sd 0:0:1:2: [sdo] Attached SCSI disk
USB:
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.711438] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] 732566016 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.712191] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] Write Protect is off
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.712193] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] Mode Sense: 4b 00 10 08
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.712938] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] No Caching mode page present
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.713978] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.714720] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] 732566016 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.716186] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] No Caching mode page present
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.717215] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.735573] sdl: sdl1
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.736557] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] 732566016 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.738058] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] No Caching mode page present
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.739085] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 5 18:52:35 localhost kernel: [ 4.740238] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdl] Attached SCSI disk

Hi ebrian,
You can't perform a migration from Linux to Windows in that manner with 9i.The plan can be changed to migrate from 9.2.0.4 to 10g and than move from 32-bit Linux to 32-bit Windows.
It should not matter the end result for the OP is the same 10g on 32 bit windows.
It just depends on what technoly the OP wants to use (export/import or rman convert).
Regards,
Tycho

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