Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:42:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> To: mrm@MARMOT.Mole.ORG (M.R.Murphy) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ST43400N Message-ID: <199606111342.JAA04272@Glock.COM> In-Reply-To: <199606111308.GAA27767@meerkat.mole.org> from "M.R.Murphy" at Jun 11, 96 06:08:22 am
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M.R.Murphy writes: > > M.R.Murphy writes: > > > > Anyone used one of these (Seagate ST43400N)? I got > > > > one for $379 ($.13/M) recently, and just tried to get it > > > > going (after spending an hour modifying my case to take > > > > a full height drive). I only tried with FreeBSD 2.1.0R > > > > and DOS 6.22. Under FreeBSD, it probes just fine, 2777M. > > > > But when I try to read from it or write to it, the system > > > > hangs, spitting out "ccb timeout" and some value that > > > > changes each time the error is printed. Under DOS 6.22 > > > > when I try "format c:" I get "Invalid device parameters > > > > from device driver." Anyone have any ideas? I'm sorta > > > > up a creek here... :( Thanks in advance! > > > You want to share what you've tried for the /etc/disktab > > > entry for the device? > > The drive hangs before a "fdisk sd1" completes, so I haven't > > even gotten as far as writing a disktab for it, since I can't > > get the probed geometry values for it. > When it probed 2777M, what else did it say? sd1(ncr0:2:0): Direct-Access sd1(ncr0:2:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8. 2777MB (5688447 512 byte sectors) > What kind of SCSI interface do you have? What low-level > formatters do you have available? It's an NCR810 controller. I don't believe it has any low-level formatting capability, and I don't think it came with much software, but I can see if it will let me lowlevel format it. Do you think that the problem is the low-level formatting of the device? Here's some info the sheet on the ST43400N has: ---- ** Already low-level formatted at the factory with six spare sectors per cylinder, one spare cylinders/unit, one system cylinder/unit, and one diagnostic cylinder/unit. ---- -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@goof.com http://www.goof.com/~mmead/
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