From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 30 14:41:11 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 2442A44B for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 14:41:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from asomers@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qc0-x22f.google.com (mail-qc0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::22f]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E199A8E0 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 14:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f175.google.com with SMTP id a1so153467qcx.20 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:41:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=OffOTF7yqU4iN8OySnMijGE77NkNvxcULydeefl6bIo=; b=vdpGoJCkYmUvam7pYPf+QM3f/uQYxv/q0NgM3kbfkkIsbTOLd9vlcUzsrCkrLMb+V8 S2ltqHjFv+8nPZFd3fcwWwIQFVHotBxIWC0h0UyqyoTITpv8ySLzDJoxRiuyUBhWR6uo oXNVFdqqz7g0FNb+SJ0fyAOVqei3qYHD39GC8+WGuKKacX7ppQzy4Q9SunTonFooVM8A 6aMUz3PPaXPgTvCnDKF7a7XFMif8ZuqxdxxCBUUsSoMNOblSA9aCpmqOPY6NiiJtiTle eWp8BKCnXZDPxh4dsvlvyDJH3Rhu6kHfDM70d1eghVNc6F//q2gkXMivh2vkLd47Duo4 EAdg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.49.72.165 with SMTP id e5mr7389027qev.49.1369924870460; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: asomers@gmail.com Received: by 10.49.94.71 with HTTP; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:41:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51A72605.4050303@gmail.com> References: <51A72605.4050303@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 08:41:10 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: haZp8-zDdgEdu4qLyeKRncYgjHo Message-ID: Subject: Re: troubles with Seagate (EMC2) disk From: Alan Somers To: Riccardo Veraldi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org 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 14:41:11 -0000 Install sysutils/sg3_utils from ports and use the sg_format command. Something like this: sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/sda On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Riccardo Veraldi wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"