Re: NetBSD RAIDFrame issue (kind of off-topic).

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 2.  Is the new drive really identical, or is it a similarly sized drive?
> I've seendrives that purport to be the same size but have different
> absolute sector counts, differing by as much as a few hundred sectors.
> If the new drive's raid partition, however you've defined it, is smaller
> than the original raid partition, even as little as one sector, that would
> cause the behavior you describe.
>
> 3.  Is it possible you're running into some protected sectors or something
> like that on the new drive?  Was the drive previously used elsewhere?

I've had drives of an identical model appear to have a different number of 
sectors. This was down to the HPA on the drive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Protected_Area

This is easily fixed using the nhpa command in MHDD - a bootable ISO is 
available:

http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

--
Stephen