[4243] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Seagate drive & cfdisk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sun Jun 28 01:44:45 1998
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 01:35:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Top Dawg <chuck@atthe.net>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980627121147.00699b38@efn.org>
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Top Dawg wrote:
> when the machine boots it reads
>
> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230W SUN 4.2G Rev:0738
> Detected SCSI disk sda at scsi 0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector = 512 bytes. sectors 8386733 [4095 MB] 4.1GB
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230W SUN4.2G Rev: 0738
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8386733 [4095 MB] [4.1GB]
Looks just like the one I got from Onsale.
> When I try to run CFDISK or FDISK in linux it says FATAL ERROR accessing
> the disk I have an Adaptec 2920 controller as well I tried a AdvanSys
> 5140 with the same result. I have no problems under DOS everything
> seems to work
Odd. When I got mine, the first was DOA. It caused SCSI bus problems and
sounded like it had some physical internal damage. Next one, linux fdisk
wouldn't talk to. I did a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512", and after
that fdisk was able to make partitions, and I've been using it ever since.
BTW...make sure you terminate the SCSI bus. These drives have no
termination. I'm running mine 8-bit SCSI since I didn't have a wide
terminator handy. I only seem to get about 4MB/s reading from it...so I
don't think I'd gain anything using wide SCSI.
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