Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:47:06 -0500 (EST) From: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "very dangerously dedicated mode" is Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001152041220.17580-100000@sapphire.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <54647.947879091@monkeys.com>
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I've also fixed screwed scsi disks by doing a low level format; I usually do it anyway when moving a disk from one controller to another if its not a temporary thing. Among my scsi cards is a Tekram 390F, and on one sickly drive the bios LLF would stall but another freebsd system saved the day with camcontrol; I used it to initiate a LLF which luckily "took". > Fortunately, the SCSI controller in question was a non-cheap Adaptec. > Every Adaptech that has a model number >= 1520 (I think) has on-card > built-in ROM-based utilities, and among these is a low-level formatting > utility. I ran that on the drive in question and it cured it... the > thing started to act like it had a proper sort of geometry (based upon > the current translation/non-translation setting of the controller) after > that, and all was well again. I then partitioned the drive normally > (using DOS fdisk) and it has been just fine ever since. > > Apparently, SCSI drives for PeeCee-type system really just DO NOT like > to be moved from one SCSI controller to another if the two controllers > have different translation/non-translation settings. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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