Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:16:03 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu> Cc: freebsd-scsi <scsi@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IBM 36gig drive Message-ID: <20040427061603.GA13398@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0404270042480.13343-100000@blackbear.hamline.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0404270042480.13343-100000@blackbear.hamline.edu>
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:47:00AM -0500, Robert Johannes wrote: > I've six ibm DRHS36D 36gig drives attached to a sym0 controller (tekram > dc-390) and each time I try to do anything with the drive, I get a message > to the effect of: > "da1: invalid sector size 520" > "da2: invalid sector size 520" > "da3: invalid sector size 520" > > This goes on for all six drives. Can any body give me any clues as to > what's wrong, and how to correct it? I'm running 4.9 stable. Looks like a drive taken from a RAIDarray of some sorts. It has 8 bytes extra per block compared to the standard 512 bytes/block. It will need a low level format to make it 512. In most cases that is done via a mode select command, followed by a format unit command. Check with IBM how this is done for their drives, as this kind of stuff is vendor unique. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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