Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 01:59:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Khang Trang <khang@hero.clerk.leon.fl.us> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: trouble with a seagate ST39140N 1206 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902170139220.2120-100000@hero.clerk.leon.fl.us>
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help! i'm having some problems with an adaptec 2940 and two seagate ST39140N 1206 drives running on a ppro200 with fbsd 3.0-release. history: the machine was formerly a redhat 5.1 linux machine and the two seagate drives were formatted ext2fs. switched to fbsd 3.0 ... formatted the 8 gig ibm ide drive and installed fbsd 3.0. fbsd loads up and runs great. everything worked great. i was able to mount_ext2fs the two scsi seagate drives, but then the system got rebooted a few times (without my knowledge) and the seagate drives got corrupt (superblock was missing). tried fsck -b with an alternate superblock to no avail. i figured might as well format and setup the hds as fbsd drives so i do: camcontrol cmd -v -n da -u 0 -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" following the examples from a post to the fbsd mail archives. when i ran camcontrol it gave some sort of error saying could not send command or soemthing to that extent. no biggie i figured. look through the fbsd handbook and found: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo bs=1K count=1 disklabel etc etc etc tried that but got this error message: dd: /dev/rda0: Input/output error checking dmesg there are these errors: (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): READ(06). CDB: 8 0 0 0 1 0 (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): Medium format corrupted da0: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 now i can't fdisk, fsck, disklabel, or anything on that drive. camcontrol devlist shows the following: <SEAGATE ST39140N 1206> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) <YAMAHA CDR100 1.11> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,cd0) <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5701TA 0167> at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass2,cd1) <SEAGATE ST39140N 1206> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass3,da1) HELP! i'm not worried about losing the data (ha! that's probably already done) but from what i've managed to find out from teh mail archives i'm under the impression that i'm screwed. i haven't tried looking at the firmware in the scsi controller (suggested to me) or a low level format (can someone tell me how in fbsd 3.0?). any help would be appreciated. as long as teh drives aren't now paperweigths i'm happy. would it help if i took the drives out, put them in a dos machine and format them, then put them back in and mount_msdos them? i'm considering this route if it works. if you need more info please email me back. (btw the machine is up and running with fbsd 3.0 just don't have the two drives mounted which i really really would like to do. so PLEASE DON'T TELL ME THE DRIVES ARE PAPERWEIGHTS AND I SHOULD BUY NEW ONES :(.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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