SUMMARY: SCSI disk problem...

Special thanks to:
    * Randy Romero
    * Galen Johnson
    * Darren Dunham
    * Hichael Morton
    * Jerry Stachowski
    * Mark Preston
    * Peter Stokes
    * Julie Peers
    * Rene Casalme
You may find that I'm a strange guy, but I'm, in a way, happy to tell that 
I was right: the disk is dead.  There's no doudbt in my mind now, 
especially after receiving all your awnsers.  Everybody had the same 
opinion: the disk is dead!  ;-)

Thanks again!  Here's my original post:

>Hi Mamangers,
>
>I have this error message when trying to use a SCSI 9.1GB SCA 80-pins disk:
>
>WARNING: 
>/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@3,0 (sd3):
>         Error for Command: load/start/stop         Error Level: Retryable
>         Requested Block: 0                         Error Block: 0
>         Vendor: IBM                                Serial Number:
>         Sense Key: Not Ready
>         ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x0
>
>At the OK prompt level, when I do a "probe-scsi-all", it seems to work 
>well, giving me all the info about the disk, using the default target 3 
>(where it stands physically in my SPARCstation).  But when I start the 
>install process of Solaris, I have this message appearing many times.
>
>Of course, Solaris doesn't install and exits to the # single usermode 
>prompt.  At this point, I try to use the "format" utility, and when trying 
>to search for the disks, the error is coming back.  Also, when I get to 
>the "format>" prompt and I select the disk, I have to specify the disk 
>type manually (it doesn't detect it automatically).  Of course, none of 
>the "format>" commands work.
>
>I browsed the web and found (to much) few anwsers about something that may 
>be related to this, and it seems to be related to an hardware problem.  In 
>other words, the disk has a physical failure.
>
>My question is: is it the case?   ;-)
>
>Thanks to all!
>__________________________________________
>   Benont Audet
>
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   Benont Audet

   C.E.P Atmosphair Inc.
   1600G Route de l'Airoport
   St-Jean Chrysostome (QC) G6Z 2L2
   418.834.7272   1 877 834.7272

   baudet@atmosphair.com
   http://www.atmosphair.com
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