SCSI problem.
I'll admit that this probably isn't the best place to ask this, so feel
free to direct me elsewhere :).
I have a Sparc LX (allison) running Debian stable, and I recently added
some new (well, second hand) SCSI HDDs; booting up I get these
messages: (new discs are the two IBMs and the COMPAQ)
esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast)
ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use.
scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL ST2100S Rev: 0F0D
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
esp0: hoping for msgout
Vendor: DEC Model: RZ55 (C) DEC Rev: 1000
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS09F CLAR09 Rev: 2424
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
esp0: hoping for msgout
Vendor: COMPAQ Model: ST12550N Rev: 3223
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS09F CLAR09 Rev: 2424
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sde at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 5 SCSI disks total.
esp0: target 0 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II]
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4201304 [2051 MB] [2.1 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 649040 [316 MB] [0.3 GB]
esp0: target 4 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II]
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17796078 [8689 MB] [8.7 GB]
SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4110000 [2006 MB] [2.0 GB]
esp0: target 6 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II]
sde : unsupported sector size 520.
scsi : deleting disk entry.
Evidently the person who last had /dev/sde (which is otherwise the twin
of /dev/sdc) had it formatted strangely. So I think - I'll have to
low-level format this drive. Asking around I discover that there is a
scsiformat utility in the scsitools package (this isn't available for
stable, so I download the source and compile it myself - anyone who wants
a .deb for this with stable-dependancies I can give them a copy).
The trouble is that when I do scsiformat on /dev/sde it gives an error
that the device isn't configured.
Any help gratefully recieved....
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##### Someone's lit a campfire in my cave.
#######__o The first rays of dawn are breaking through the clouds,
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