From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 19 14:49:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09716 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:49:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from puck.nether.net (puck.nether.net [204.42.254.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09711 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:49:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from irvingp@puck.nether.net) Received: from localhost (irvingp@localhost) by puck.nether.net (8.9.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA19193 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:49:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:49:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Irving Popovetsky To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sd0: Can't deal with 514 bytes logical blocks Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm attempting to install a pretty old seagate 1-gig drive on my 2.2.7-stable machine with an Adaptec 1540 ISA-based controller. When booting, it seems to detect it just fine: aha0 at 0x330-0x333 irq 11 drq 5 on isa aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle (aha0:0:0): "TANDEM 4240-1 6420" type 0 fixed SCSI 1 sd0(aha0:0:0): Direct-Access 999MB (2038001 514 byte sectors) but when something actually tries to access it (fdisk, for example), I get the error: sd0: Can't deal with 514 bytes logical blocks Debugger("sd") called. and then that program dies. I'm fairly green with a lot of scsi issues, so I'm basically stuck. Can anyone help me out? is this disk even usable? Any help would be very appreciated ... or even a "throw the damn thing out, Irving", -Irving Popovetsky, H.G. ANS Communications - Dial Operations Specialist Pioneer High School - Webmaster http://pioneer.citi.umich.edu grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message