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Date:      Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:01:25 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Thomas Stromberg <thomas@stromberg.org>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: da0: invalid sector size 520
Message-ID:  <20010415200125.C77682@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <01c345844160f41FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com>; from thomas@stromberg.org on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:45:32PM -0400
References:  <01c345844160f41FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com>

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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: <SEAGATE ST15150N 3514> 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/

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