Subject: SCSI-2 Drive still not quite working
To: None <port-hp300@netbsd.org>
From: Sageev T. George <sageev@usc.edu>
List: port-hp300
Date: 01/30/2001 17:40:02
My problem of trying to see a SCSI-2 Seagate 1480N drive is still a
problem.
Taking the advice of some users, I have continued using my Rodime for
booting the netbsd kernel, which is supposed to be able to see SCSI-2
drives.
It might be important to note that when I was installing NetBSD, I had
another Rodime drive at SCSI ID 4, and after I get NetBSD running,
I took that Rodime out and put the Seagate at SCSI ID 4.
When the Rodime at SCSI ID 0 is booting with the netbsd kernel,
it does in fact see some of the SCSI information from the Seagate
drive.   It sees the name of the drive, and a couple other characters.
But, the next line after the name, it says "sd1: getcapacity failed"

I was hoping that I could run the disklabel program in spite of
this error so that I could put the appropriate label on this
disk, but disklabel continues to report that /dev/rsd1c is not
configured.
This happened if I used a command like: disklabel -e -I sd1,
and if I used disklabel with other parameters.  I'll admit that I'm
still clueless about using disklabel, but I'm more afraid that this
problem might be stemming from the fact that the "getcapacity"
attempt failed.

Any suggestions?  I have already done a low-level format of the
SCSI-2 disk.  I was going to try putting the disk in my Pentium
system running NetBSD and running disklabel from there, but
I don't know if this would be pointless.

Sageev