On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Paul Goyette wrote:

> SCSI Parameter Page 4 is "Rigid Disk Drive Geometry"...  Not sure
> about page 5.
>
> Sounds like your drive is not responding to the Mode Sense command.

That sounds weird... Hmm, maybe something else then...
I'll get back to the code and read more.
Any other suggestions why it spews that error to me?
I have placed a NetBSD disklabel on it, and it's happy with me writing to 
the disk.

 	Johnny
>
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> I have a SCSI disk which I just did a format on, and now I cannot get 
>> NetBSD to not tell me:
>> # disklabel sd1
>> sd1: fabricating a geometry
>> ...
>> 
>> I've looked some at the code, and a figure sd_get_params_page[45]() both 
>> fail, for some reason.
>> 
>> Can anyone give me some clues here, or a solution? I'm not sure what these 
>> pages are. Areas on the disk? Something stored somewhere else on disk which 
>> I clobbered?
>> I don't know (remember) if the disk behaved the same before the format. And 
>> the format was because I wanted to test if I could solve another problem 
>> with that disk.
>> 
>> 	Johnny
>> 
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>> 
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