Not that I have an immediate idea, but I have the same concern. It is 2014, and initializing a disk on a working machine is still an extremely dangerous operation! It'd be really nice if some nice user interface is designed.
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Thomas Klausner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > When I plug in a new disk I bought recently, I get: > > umass1 at uhub4 port 8 configuration 1 interface 0 > umass1: Samsung D3 Station, rev 2.10/2.02, addr 5 > umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only > scsibus1 at umass1: 2 targets, 1 lun per target > inquire: addlen=71, not retrying > sd5 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0: <Samsung, D3 Station, 0202> disk fixed > sd5(umass1:0:0:0): Check Condition on CDB: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 > SENSE KEY: Not Ready > ASC/ASCQ: Logical Unit Is in Process Of Becoming Ready > > sd5: drive offline > sd5: unable to open device, error = 5 > sd5: fabricating a geometry > > but then I get no further devices. > > I was able to add a GPT table, and "gpt list /dev/sd5" works, so I can > manually create wedges using dkctl. It'd be nicer if it was done > automatically, like usual, though... > > Ideas? > Thomas
