Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 11:26:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Thomas Stromberg <thomas@stromberg.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: da0: invalid sector size 520 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104151125360.73226-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <0653a1115180f41FE5@mail5.nc.rr.com>
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This is a drive that was in a raid unit. Reformat to to 512 byte sectors. There's some camcontrol magic for doing this, but, frankly, I just use Solaris. On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, 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: <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/ > > 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. > > BTW, I'm not on the SCSI mailing list, so any replies should be CC'd to > me > > / Thomas > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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