From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 16 00:21:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA23878 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA23846 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA04937; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:21:00 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA19686; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:20:27 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970916092026.VJ28253@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:20:26 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Subject: Re: What could cause scsiformat to fail, yet controller format to work? References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Jaye Mathisen on Sep 15, 1997 17:57:33 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jaye Mathisen wrote: > I have a new Fuji 9GB disk I'm playing with, and when I try to configure > it in a ccd, I get a medium error, asc:31,1. > > However, if I go into the Adaptec BIOS and do format media, it seems to > hum along just fine. Verify disk works as well. 31 00 DT W O MEDIUM FORMAT CORRUPTED Are you trying to use the plain disk device (/dev/rsd0), as opposed to the control device (/dev/rsd0.ctl)? This ASC/ASCQ is typical for trying to access a disk that is not completely formatted. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)