Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:47:14 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: kris@airnet.net (Kris Kirby) Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reformatting a 520-byte-per-sector drive Message-ID: <199909150647.AAA40575@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <37DF402B.BEA5086E@airnet.net> from Kris Kirby at "Sep 15, 1999 01:43:55 am"
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Kris Kirby wrote... > Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > As of now, it is running this command. Until the machine hangs... (I > > > have a bad widdle 1542CF. But three good 1542Bs. Well, the CF is the > > > only one with a BIOS more intelligent than mud. :-) > > > > I'm not sure I understand. Is the drive doing anything? Does the > > machine/card normally hang? > > This card will crash any machine. It's known to be broken, but it gets > the job done sometimes. I usually just use a 1542B instead. It's less > painful. Mind, I'm not saying _all_ 1542CF's are broken, just the one I > have in my possession. Hmm, that's strange indeed. > > I would expect the blocksize change to go pretty quickly, unless the drive > > automatically does a format or something similar when you change the > > blocksize. (With other drives, you change the blocksize and then format.) > > > > Can you tell if the drive is doing anything? > > It doesn't have a led output, so no. I can hear what I think is > accessing, but it may just be the bearings. That's a good sign. > > The other problem you may have with this is that if the drive does format > > itself when you change the blocksize, the timeout for the mode select is > > likely too short. In fact, the default timeout for generic SCSI commands > > like the one you issued is 5 seconds, which is way too short for a format. > > I'm chasing them on the command line ; one right after the other. > (That's not _just_ a grammatical > example!) So, like the energizer bunny, it keeps right on going, > formatting. Ahh, okay. I thought that the mode select was hanging somehow. But, of course, the format should take a while. I'm curious to see whether the sector size change will stick after the format. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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