IBM 36gig drive

[Matthias Andree]

Robert Johannes <rjohanne at piper.hamline.edu> writes:

> I've six ibm DRHS36D 36gig drives attached to a sym0 controller (tekram
> dc-390) and each time I try to do anything with the drive, I get a message
> to the effect of:

The Tekram DC-390 and DC-390T are amd(4) driven.

If your Tekram uses sym(4), it must be a DC-390U, DC-390F, DC-390U2B,
DC-390U2W, DC-390U3W or DC-390U3D. (The U4 use mpt AFAIK. Never tried those.)

> "da1: invalid sector size 520"

> This goes on for all six drives.  Can any body give me any clues as to
> what's wrong, and how to correct it?  I'm running 4.9 stable.

Check out the sformat port or the Tekram's BIOS for a low level format
(voiding all data on the drives).

I don't know if the Tekram BIOS will correct the layout, sformat should
be able to.

You might also succeed in hacking mode pages with camcontrol, but I
don't know the pages and settings to fiddle off-hand, so some
higher-level tool would be my recommendation at the moment.

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Matthias Andree

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