I'll admit that this probably isn't the best place to ask this, so feel free to direct me elsewhere :).
I have a Sparc LX (allison) running Debian stable, and I recently added some new (well, second hand) SCSI HDDs; booting up I get these messages: (new discs are the two IBMs and the COMPAQ) esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use. scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST scsi : 1 host. Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL ST2100S Rev: 0F0D Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 esp0: hoping for msgout Vendor: DEC Model: RZ55 (C) DEC Rev: 1000 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS09F CLAR09 Rev: 2424 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 esp0: hoping for msgout Vendor: COMPAQ Model: ST12550N Rev: 3223 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS09F CLAR09 Rev: 2424 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sde at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi : detected 5 SCSI disks total. esp0: target 0 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II] SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4201304 [2051 MB] [2.1 GB] SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 649040 [316 MB] [0.3 GB] esp0: target 4 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II] SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17796078 [8689 MB] [8.7 GB] SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4110000 [2006 MB] [2.0 GB] esp0: target 6 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II] sde : unsupported sector size 520. scsi : deleting disk entry. Evidently the person who last had /dev/sde (which is otherwise the twin of /dev/sdc) had it formatted strangely. So I think - I'll have to low-level format this drive. Asking around I discover that there is a scsiformat utility in the scsitools package (this isn't available for stable, so I download the source and compile it myself - anyone who wants a .deb for this with stable-dependancies I can give them a copy). The trouble is that when I do scsiformat on /dev/sde it gives an error that the device isn't configured. Any help gratefully recieved.... -- Jonathan Amery. Now there's a light at the end of the tunnel, ##### Someone's lit a campfire in my cave. #######__o The first rays of dawn are breaking through the clouds, #######'/ And somehow I know I can be brave. - Steve Kitson
