I just finally managed to get myself a SCSI board and have been trying to get
my internal hard drive working. Sun 4/260 with an si controller and a
micropolis 1558 ESDI drive with an Emulex ESDI to SCSI board in between.

dmesg
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si0 at vmes0 addr 0xff200000 vec 0x40 pri 3
si0: options=1<DMA>
scsibus0 at si0
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <EMULEX, MD21/S2     ESDI, A00> SCSI0 0/direct
fixed
sd1: sd1(si0:0:0): not ready, data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd1(si0:0:0): could not get size
0MB, 1224 cyl, 15 head, 0 sec, 512 bytes/sec
sd2 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 1: <EMULEX, MD21/S2     ESDI, A00> SCSI0 0/direct
fixed
sd2: drive offline
st0 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <, , > SCSI1 1/sequential removable
st0: rogue, drive empty

/etc/disktab
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Micropolis 1558:\
        :ty#winchester:ns#35:nt#15:nc#1218:

m1558|Micropolis 1558 defined by allanc:\
        :ty=winchester:ns#35:nt#15:nc#1218:dt=scsi:\
        :pc#639450:oc#0:tc=4.2BSD:

What I type
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# disklabel -wr /dev/sd1c m1558
Mar  4 18:43:27 sparcy /netbsd: sd1(si0:0:0): non-media hardware failure, info
= 0 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mar  4 18:43:27 sparcy /netbsd: sd1(si0:0:0): non-media hardware failure, info
= 0 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mar  4 18:43:27 sparcy /netbsd: sd1: disk label read error

(the Non-media hardware failure message happens several times more)
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Is my drive simply too old and crufty?
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Allan "Norm" Crain |  allanc@idea-inc.com  | http://web.idea-inc.com/~allanc
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