Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 08:41:10 -0600 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo.veraldi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: troubles with Seagate (EMC2) disk Message-ID: <CAOtMX2hgdAbmbedZsWrzV1j2-nzjNpwMFCAAxV3QGZt_nQmJdQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51A72605.4050303@gmail.com> References: <51A72605.4050303@gmail.com>
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Install sysutils/sg3_utils from ports and use the sg_format command. Something like this: sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/sda On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo.veraldi@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I have a Seagate ST350000 CLAR500 disk. > > it is attached to my Sun Blade 1000 running FreeBSD 9.1 > > I need to label it, create partition and move te root /usr/ var and swap > from the main boot disk which has corrupted blocks. > > so this disk will become my boot disk. > > the problem is that I cannot partition it or even access it in anyway > > dd: /dev/da6: Invalid argument > 1+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes transferred in 0.000700 secs (0 bytes/sec) > > this is the disk information: > > da6 at isp0 bus 0 scbus2 target 1 lun 0 > da6: <SEAGATE ST350000 CLAR500 FDBD> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > da6: 100.000MB/s transfers WWNN 0x2000001862133c8d WWPN 0x2100001862133c8d > PortID 0xe4 > da6: Command Queueing enabled > da6: 476940MB (961745856 520 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 59865C) > > the problem is that disk byte sectors are 520 and not 512 > > is there a way to reformat it to 512 byte sectors ? > > is there a way to make it usable ? > > the SCSI III disk has a FC - AL interface (Internal Sun Blade 1000 Caddy). > > thank you > > Rick > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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