SUMMARY Seagate 23 GB drive

From: <darrell_winner_at_ccmail.aleq.tyndall.af.mil>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:37:51 -0600

I was unable to get disklabel to find my new drive. Turns out the problem was
hardware related - the SCSI jumpers weren't installed correctly which resulted
in SCSI id 8. After fixing this to SCSI id 4 things went much more smoothly. The
key piece of information I lacked was how to determine the rz## number. Here's
the answer from Alan Davis (based on the >>> show device command at the boot
prompt).

Here's the short course in console -> DU device names :


DKB400

DK == scsi disk
B = bus where a=0, b=1, etc
4 = target on bus (SCSI id number)
0 = always 0 (for now)
0 = LUN where LUN 0 = a, 1 = b, etc and is now only seen with hsz
controllers
    for non-hsz ignore

the formula for device naming is :

    rz + LUN + (8 * bus) + target
rz + ignore + (8 * 1) + 4
rz 8 + 4 = rz12

Another gem comes from George Guethlein is how to use disklabel for a 3rd party
drive

# disklabel -rw rz12 rzxx

where the rzxx tells the command to get the disk physical information from the
disk itself.
Received on Thu Feb 19 1998 - 17:54:31 NZDT

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