Subject: New SCSI drive is offline???
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/10/2002 11:12:57
I've run out of disk space too many times and have added a 9GB Cheetah 
drive to my work system but I'm getting a strange "drive offline" message 
and "Operation not supported by device" messages.  Any one have any clues?

This is the relevant portion of dmesg from the SS-10 I'm using at work"

sbus0 at iommu0: clock = 20 MHz
dma0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x400000: dma rev 2
esp0 at dma0 slot 15 offset 0x800000 level 4: ESP200, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
ledma0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x400010: dma rev 2
le0 at ledma0 slot 15 offset 0xc00000 level 6: address 08:00:20:1a:d6:47
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
SUNW,bpp at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x4800000 level 2 (ipl 3) not configured
SUNW,DBRIe at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x8010000 level 9 not configured
cgsix0 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x0 level 9: SUNW,501-2325, 1152 x 900, rev 11
cgsix0: attached to /dev/fb
eccmemctl0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0x0: version 0x0/0x1
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <SGI, SEAGATE ST32430N, 0272> SCSI2 
0/direct fixed
sd0: 2049 MB, 3992 cyl, 9 head, 116 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4197405 sectors
sd0: sync (100.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
sd1 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST318203LC, 0002> SCSI2 0/direct 
fixed
sd1: drive offline
sd1: sync (100.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs

And this is my attempt at writing a disklabel:

# disklabel -e -I sd1
disklabel: /dev/rsd1c: Operation not supported by device
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