scsifmt from scsitools should work to low level format the drive.
I bought some AS400 drives from ebay last spring. Wouldn't work until I low level formatted them. I did the format from the AIC controllers bios though. Never used scsifmt, but it should accomplish the same task.
John Clymer
Szieberth Denes wrote:
apt-get install scsitools
or similar. There used to be a command for low level format of scsi discs. You don't need the controller's utilities.
Have fun :) Ionut
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 12:26, Szieberth Denes wrote:
Hi, I have an UP2000 motherboard with an on-board AIC-7891 SCSI controller. I'd like to attach a disk which has a block size different from 512 bytes. Is it posible to start the controller's scsi utilities before or from the SRM console to modify the block size? cheers dino
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I can't really use scsitools bacause the drive has an unusual block size. The kernel gives the following message durng bootup:
---- (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/6/0 (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 393 instructions downloaded scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.33/3.2.4 <Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> scsi : 1 host. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST318451LW Rev: 0003 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Vendor: IBMAS400 Model: DGVS09U Rev: S9NA Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total. (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 80.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 63. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35843671 [17501 MB] [17.5 GB] (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 80.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 63. sdb : unsupported sector size 522. scsi : deleting disk entry. ----
and I can't reach the second disk with scsitools (there's no sdb device). I was told that a low level scsi format with the controller' disk utilities can modify the block size.
so the question remains: how could I start the controller's utilities before bootup?
dino
