From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 21:29:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA01064 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:29:16 -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 VAA01059 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:29:13 -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 AAA04128; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:29:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:29:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Irving Popovetsky To: Julian Elischer cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sd0: Can't deal with 514 bytes logical blocks In-Reply-To: <35DC8681.59E2B600@whistle.com> 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 Oh! I'm sorry. Let me apologize, because I figured out what was wrong, and fixed it..... without letting anyone know. It came from the factory with 514 byte sectors. a low-level format from adaptecs lovely utilities fixed that. :) thank you guys very much, -Irving On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 13:26:41 -0700 > From: Julian Elischer > To: Irving Popovetsky > Subject: Re: sd0: Can't deal with 514 bytes logical blocks > > Thou shouldst address thy riddle to that group scsi@freebsd.org.. > :-) > > Irving Popovetsky wrote: > > > > 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 > -Irving Popovetsky, H.G. ANS Communications - BigDial 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