Just for the sake of it, in case anyone wondered, after putting in many hours of reading documentation and playing with the disk, I gave up on a Seagate 9GB Cheetah, stubbornly presening itself as a 9GB Barracuda, and would not let get itself formatted to anything but 1GB capacity. More precisely, I was able to reformat and analyze, but not label the disk with any tools available under Solaris. I suspect a burnt transistor or a trace caused hardware parameters of the disk to appear different from what they should have been. In my efforts to learn something and make use of the disk I received significant help from Casper Dik and Peter Stokes. Other people also offered advice: Robert Reynolds, Mark McManus, and Juergen Waiblinger. Thank you, Witold Paluszynski <witold@ict.pwr.wroc.pl> Institute of Tech. Cybernetics Wroclaw University of Technology Wroclaw, Poland > From witold Thu Jul 25 19:27:43 2002 > To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > Subject: format a Seagate 9GB disk > > Hi, > > I have acquired a non-Sun, second-hand Seagate disk labeled as ST39204LC > (9GB Cheetah 18XL). Both top labels and the appearance of the body, and > the circuit board, confirm, after a very careful examination of Seagate > documentation, that this is indeed the disk's identity. > > However, after hot-plugging into an Ultra 450, the disk presents itself > as a 9GB Barracuda 9LP, and actually as: > <SEAGATE-ST39173N-3131 cyl 14382 alt 2 hd 3 sec 47> > Now, this is surely wrong, this is an SCA and not a 50-pin SCSI disk. > I am assuming someone has written wrong parameters to the disk. > > Now my question(s): how can I bring the disk back to its true identity? > Format let's me set new parameters, but the variable number of sectors > per track confuses me. Can someone provide the correct format parameters > for an ST39204LC? I don't care about any data on the disk. > > Thank you, > Witold Paluszynski <witold@ict.pwr.wroc.pl> > Institute of Tech. Cybernetics > Wroclaw University of Technology > Wroclaw, Poland _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Aug 6 11:13:54 2002
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