I think that "too-old and crusty" is the problem. I got those errors with
an old Hitachi recently and I slapped it around a bit then plugged it into
a couple other machines and never got anything out of it. Those
full-heights make nice bookends tho',and there's always the ol' 'platter
clock' <--great for gifts ;-)...


On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Allan 'Norm' Crain wrote:

> 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
> -----
> 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
> ------------
> 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
> -----------
> # 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?
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> Allan "Norm" Crain |  allanc@idea-inc.com  | http://web.idea-inc.com/~allanc
> "We'll have fun fun fun 'till my daddy takes the T1 away" --nby@idea-inc.com
>