Subject: Re: IBM DFHS-31080 SCSI drive problem
To: Ken Wellsch <kwellsch@link.link-systems.com>
From: Andy Doran <ad@fionn.sports.gov.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 05/16/1999 19:22:19
Hi Ken.

You need to edit the disklabel (disklabel -e sd1) and set the fstype field
to 4.2BSD for the filesystems you want to use.

Andy.

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Ken Wellsch wrote:

> I bought a couple IBM DFHS-31080 drives from ONSALE a few weeks ago
> and I've been unable to talk to them as anything but the whole-drive.
> Here is the dmesg description from an ss20 running 1.4:
> 
>   probe(esp0:4:0): max sync rate 10.00Mb/s
>   sd1 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <IBM, DFHS, 18> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
>   sd1: 1074MB, 4385 cyl, 4 head, 125 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2199878 sectors
> 
> and here is my label:
> 
>   # /dev/rsd1c:
>   type: SCSI
>   disk: DFHSS1F
>   label: 
>   flags:
>   bytes/sector: 512
>   sectors/track: 125
>   tracks/cylinder: 4
>   sectors/cylinder: 500
>   cylinders: 4385
>   total sectors: 2192500
>   rpm: 7200
>   interleave: 1
>   trackskew: 0
>   cylinderskew: 0
>   headswitch: 0		# milliseconds
>   track-to-track seek: 1	# milliseconds
>   drivedata: 0 
> 
>   8 partitions:
>   #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:   134000        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 267)
>   b:   268000   134000       swap                        # (Cyl.  268 - 803)
>   c:  2192500        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 4384)
>   d:  1790500   402000     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.  804 - 4384)
> 
> Yet I can only "newfs" the "c" partition (i.e. full-drive) and I get this
> for say the "a" partition:
> 
>   ss20# newfs /dev/rsd1a
>   newfs: /dev/rsd1a: open: Device not configured
> 
> Ditto for partition "d".  I saw the same behavior on an Alpha box with
> a "bha" controller also running 1.4.
> 
> Is the drive doing something funky or am I doing something stupid?
> 
> -- Ken
> 
>