From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Apr 15 12:11: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B9837B423 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14orvL-000EcY-00; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 19:11:04 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f3FJEbg78668; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 21:14:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 21:14:37 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Thomas Stromberg Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: da0: invalid sector size 520 Message-ID: <20010415211437.A78654@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20010415200125.C77682@freebie.demon.nl> <0653a1115180f41FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <0653a1115180f41FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com>; from thomas@stromberg.org on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:15:45PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:15:45PM -0400, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > > On Sunday, April 15, 2001, at 02:01 PM, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:45:32PM -0400, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > >> I'm trying to add the following Seagate Barracuda to my FreeBSD box: > >> > >> da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > >> da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing > >> Enabled > >> da0: 4087MB (8242659 520 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 513C) > >> > >> notice the 520 byte sectors? This occurs whenever I try to do any > >> operations (sysinstall, dd, disklabel) with da0: > >> > >> da0: invalid sector size 520 > > > > Guessing: > > > > Could be a disk from a machine that uses hardware RAID or extra > > checksumming > > in the 8 bytes beyond 512 bytes/sector. You can try to reformat the > > drive > > while first selecting 512 bytes/sector. > > > > W/ > > Not sure where this disk came from, got it from Ebay. The problem I have > is I'm getting this error while trying to reformat it.. from sysinstall, > disklabel, newfs, and dd.. Any advice on how to re-format this disk that > I'm missing? I'm not very experieced with SCSI stuff. See the man page for 'camcontrol'. You need to give it a low-level SCSI format. Things like 'dd' etc don't do that for you.. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte FreeBSD/alpha Powered http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message