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Date:      Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:49:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   sd0: Can't deal with 514 bytes logical blocks
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.980819174428.18937A-100000@puck.nether.net>

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Hello,

	I'm attempting to install a pretty old seagate 1-gig drive on my
2.2.7-stable machine with an Adaptec 1540 ISA-based controller.

When booting, it seems to detect it just fine:

aha0 at 0x330-0x333 irq 11 drq 5 on isa
aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
(aha0:0:0): "TANDEM 4240-1 6420" type 0 fixed SCSI 1
sd0(aha0:0:0): Direct-Access 999MB (2038001 514 byte sectors)

but when something actually tries to access it (fdisk, for example), I get
the error:

sd0: Can't deal with 514 bytes logical blocks
Debugger("sd") called.

and then that program dies. 

I'm fairly green with a lot of scsi issues, so I'm basically stuck.  Can
anyone help me out?  is this disk even usable?


Any help would be very appreciated ...  or even a "throw the damn thing
out, Irving",


-Irving Popovetsky, H.G.
 ANS Communications - Dial Operations Specialist
 Pioneer High School - Webmaster    http://pioneer.citi.umich.edu

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