From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 15 17:47:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sapphire.looksharp.net (mcdouga9.user.msu.edu [35.10.148.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3950A14D50 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 17:47:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by sapphire.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA17752; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:47:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) X-Authentication-Warning: sapphire.looksharp.net: bsdx owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:47:06 -0500 (EST) From: Adam To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "very dangerously dedicated mode" is In-Reply-To: <54647.947879091@monkeys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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