Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:24:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Cohen <cohentl@clarkson.edu> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is this device bad? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10104241224350.19088-100000@isis.aoc.clarkson.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010424102410.A99321@panzer.kdm.org>
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Ok.. how long should that format take? it's a 9.x gig drive and that format took about 2 seconds... -Todd On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:10:27 -0400, Todd Cohen wrote: > > Well, I don't know how to do a low level format on this machine.. it's an > > AlphaStation. I ran the following as someone else suggested, it doesn't > > report any errors.. but later in dmesg I get errors: > > > > camcontrol format da1 > > That is a low level format. > > > da1 at sym0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > > da1: <SEAGATE ST410800N 7114> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > > da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8) > > da1: Attempt to query device size failed: MEDIUM ERROR, Medium format > > corrupted > > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 > > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): Medium format corrupted field replaceable unit: 1 > > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 > > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): Medium format corrupted field replaceable unit: 1 > > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 > > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): Medium format corrupted field replaceable unit: 1 > > If those errors popped up after the format (you might want to power cycle > as well), then you've probably got a bad drive. > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@kdm.org > __________________________________________________________________________ ICMP: The protocol that goes PING! I like angles, but only to a degree. cthread. cthread_fork(). Fork, thread, fork! Black holes suck. http://wckn.clarkson.edu/~cohentl/ Real_men_don't_need_spacebars. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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