Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:01:25 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Thomas Stromberg <thomas@stromberg.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: da0: invalid sector size 520 Message-ID: <20010415200125.C77682@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <01c345844160f41FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com>; from thomas@stromberg.org on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:45:32PM -0400 References: <01c345844160f41FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com>
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On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:45:32PM -0400, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > I'm trying to add the following Seagate Barracuda to my FreeBSD box: > > da0: <SEAGATE ST15150N 3514> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da0: 4087MB (8242659 520 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 513C) > > notice the 520 byte sectors? This occurs whenever I try to do any > operations (sysinstall, dd, disklabel) with da0: > > da0: invalid sector size 520 Guessing: Could be a disk from a machine that uses hardware RAID or extra checksumming in the 8 bytes beyond 512 bytes/sector. You can try to reformat the drive while first selecting 512 bytes/sector. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte FreeBSD/alpha Powered http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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