From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 30 10:12:22 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1011477 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 10:12:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from riccardo.veraldi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ea0-x231.google.com (mail-ea0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4013:c01::231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8E615E for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 10:12:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f177.google.com with SMTP id q14so71178eaj.36 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 03:12:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CeSrd6OJoMPzD3owa8LWqudEIkSl5UMLt83kIGNBJ4Q=; b=S1zxkmENlcyTkUfBKLprSzTxMDGLw1YS12dHYvN+xxwOS3EUypV/Lltn9sUwwcbFOn H8z+rIxwGjpQqMLsMA6gKhrVLwEG0wGMSquOR4cdvIKxXeTvPzZOmoafzcLyqXGrQqSL t2ubBkWSW8RqzNrKNSjqHVI7jwOo71KX8wtn89bfJYzxV4oxf8geMbfnMxKmU5vx0wDI pcpSesFHLblPyrMWqxGZeCdBlmRAEklYrApEB5Q7XHE3zKwdcB/poThDx/wRCxxszp+V /A2kTq74kLd0SHCw/48ijf1Bt5aZD2Yy5mR2V0zViU38+ljzKIQupG6gIyCbi2fOAGFy VwUA== X-Received: by 10.14.202.71 with SMTP id c47mr9277973eeo.87.1369908740722; Thu, 30 May 2013 03:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darwin.cnaf.infn.it (darwin.cnaf.infn.it. [131.154.3.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id s8sm59268910eeo.4.2013.05.30.03.12.19 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 30 May 2013 03:12:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51A72605.4050303@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:12:21 +0200 From: Riccardo Veraldi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: troubles with Seagate (EMC2) disk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 10:12:22 -0000 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: 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