Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 17:33:38 +0200 From: Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo.veraldi@gmail.com> To: dgilbert@interlog.com Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: troubles with Seagate (EMC2) disk Message-ID: <51A77152.8030100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51A76794.2080500@interlog.com> References: <51A72605.4050303@gmail.com> <51A76794.2080500@interlog.com>
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thank you very much! your utility is outstanding!! Format in progress, 5.100% done Format in progress, 6.99% done Format in progress, 6.99% done Format in progress, 6.99% done Format in progress, 7.99% done Format in progress, 7.99% done Format in progress, 8.100% done Format in progress, 8.100% done Format in progress, 8.100% done anyway for mistake I did not issued a --wait command... I am formatting a 512GB seagate disk 512 bytes per sector. how long is the default timeout ? if timeout occours I think I have to restart formatting again :( Rick On 5/30/13 4:52 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > On 13-05-30 06:12 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: <SEAGATE ST350000 CLAR500 FDBD> 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). > > In my sg3_utils package (see http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html ) > there is a utility called sg_format. If you are sure > that you do not want the existing data on that disk, try: > sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/da6 > > > Doug Gilbert
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