Folks,
Original question:
> I wish to install a new data disk. I am running DU 4.0.
> I did a MAKEDEV rz8. After physically attaching the disk, on reboot, I see:
>
> Mar 11 13:58:09 corvette vmunix: rz8 at scsi1 target 0 lun 0 (LID=3) (SEAGATE
> ST19171N 0019)
>
> This is a 9 GB Barracuda. Following the prescription given in this forum for
> labelling non-DEC disks, where the disk should supply the label, I did:
>
> # disklabel -wrn rz8 unknown
>
> The process just hangs. kill -9 doesn't kill the process. All other
> disklabel commands to the disk also hang.
I got many responses including seeing the same problem on a Quantum EMPIRE
2100, using disklabel -wr rz8 rzxx (which didn't work), zeroing the label
(which also hung), checking SCSI cables and termination (which seem to be ok),
and using the CDE diskconfig tool.
Dr. Tom Blinn asked:
> What does the console firmware report in response to the "show config" and
> "show dev" commands?
>
> Can the "scu" utility access the drive and retrieve the drive geometry info?
> If "scu" can't access the drive, then disklabel isn't going to work either.
Bruce Ferjulian suggested the same things to try. So I tried them.
When I power up the disk, the drive active LED goes on for a few seconds and I
*believe* I hear the disk spin up. (It's a very noisy environment.)
When I do
>>> sho device
the system finds DKB0, knows it's a fixed disk with device name ST9171N,
but the NUMBYTES field only has ...
When I boot the OS, the disk LED flashes briefly. It sounds like it is still
spun up, but scu show capacity and disklabel still fail:
scu> set nexus bus 1 target 0 lun 0
scu> show device
Inquiry Information:
SCSI Bus ID: 1
SCSI Target ID: 0
SCSI Target LUN: 0
Peripheral Device Type: 0 (Direct Access)
Peripheral Qualifier: 0 (Peripheral Device Connected)
Device Type Modifier: 0
Removable Media: No
ANSI Version: 2 (Complies to ANSI X3.131-1994, SCSI-2)
ECMA Version: 0
ISO Version: 0
Response Data Format: 2 (SCSI-2)
Terminate I/O Process: 0
Asynchronous Notification: 0
Additional Length: 139
Soft Reset Support: No
Command Queuing Support: Yes
Target Transfer Disable: Yes
Linked Command Support: Yes
Synchronous Data Transfers: Yes
Support for 16 Bit Transfers: No
Support for 32 Bit Transfers: No
Relative Addressing Support: No
Vendor Identification: SEAGATE
Product Identification: ST19171N
Firmware Revision Level: 0019
scu> show capacity
scu: 'read capacity' failed, EIO (5) - I/O error
scu: Sense Key = 0x2 = NOT READY - Logical unit is NOT ready,
Sense Code/Qualifier = (0x4, 0) = Logical unit not ready, cause not
reportable
Tech support at the vendor who sold me the device suggest the disk is broken,
but before I send it back I need to know:
Has anybody succeeded in getting this disk to work with Digital Unix? Is
there something else I need to do?
Thanks to:
Patrick Richard <patr_at_xcert.com>
Alonso Nunez <alonso_at_atom.msi.se>
Olle Eriksson <olle_at_cb.uu.se>
Lam Tak Ming <tmlam_at_se.cuhk.edu.hk>
Andre' <apaige_at_idulab.gov>
Paul Henderson <pgh_at_unx.dec.com>
Rich Frank <rnfrank_at_llnl.gov>
Dr. Tom Blinn <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com>
Bruce Ferjulian <Ferjulian_Bruce_at_emc.com>
Alan Rollow <alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com>
Tom Rioux <rioux_at_ip6480nl.ce.utexas.edu>
alvin Chung <CChung_at_siwest.cts.com>
--Harvey
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Received on Mon Mar 17 1997 - 23:35:50 NZST