From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Apr 23 17: 4:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mail.clarkson.edu (mail.clarkson.edu [128.153.4.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2C0837B423 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:04:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cohentl@clarkson.edu) Received: (qmail 12889 invoked by uid 0); 24 Apr 2001 00:04:11 -0000 Received: from isis.aoc.clarkson.edu (128.153.130.35) by mail.clarkson.edu with SMTP; 24 Apr 2001 00:04:11 -0000 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:04:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Cohen X-Sender: cohentl@isis.aoc.clarkson.edu To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: is this device bad? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I just bought one of those huge seagate ST410800N hard drives off off e-bay and I'm getting errors trying to make it useable. I've connected it via an external enclosure to my AlphaStation 200. I'm using an active terminator. dmesg reports the following on bootup: da1 at sym0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8) da1: Attempt to query device size failed: MEDIUM ERROR, Medium format corrupted and when I try the following commands I get these errors: lizard# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1 dd: /dev/da1: Input/output error lizard# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1 dd: /dev/rda1: Input/output error from dmesg: (da1:sym0:0:4:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da1:sym0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 (da1:sym0:0:4:0): Medium format corrupted field replaceable unit: 1 (da1:sym0:0:4:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da1:sym0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 (da1:sym0:0:4:0): Medium format corrupted field replaceable unit: 1 (da1:sym0:0:4:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da1:sym0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 (da1:sym0:0:4:0): Medium format corrupted field replaceable unit: 1 (da1:sym0:0:4:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da1:sym0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 (da1:sym0:0:4:0): Medium format corrupted field replaceable unit: 1 Is this drive bad? __________________________________________________________________________ ICMP: The protocol that goes PING! I like angles, but only to a degree. cthread. cthread_fork(). Fork, thread, fork! Black holes suck. http://wckn.clarkson.edu/~cohentl/ Real_men_don't_need_spacebars. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message