SUMMARY:Disk formatting

From: Jose Miguel Santos (watios@dvnet.es)
Date: Mon Apr 28 1997 - 03:45:18 CDT


Hi sun-managers:

I have to thank:

Brad Young <bbyoung@amoco.com>
Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au>
Sophia Sameera Corsava <106625.3502@compuserve.com>
Bertrand Hutin <hb@o2tech.fr>
Mark A. Baldwin" <baldma@aur.alcatel.com>
David Poore <poore@vistachrome.com>
Rick von Richter <rickv@mwh.com>
Rudy Yu <ryu@anthem.com>
Danny Johnson <djohnson@nbserv2.dseg.ti.com>
Jason Keltz <cs911089@red.ariel.cs.yorku.ca>

that point me to the solution.

The problem with my disk is that I had a failed one. I changed it and
everything went ok.

MY ORIGINAL QUESTION:
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Hi sun gurus:

I'm trying to install a new 4GB disk on a Ultra 1 machine running solaris
2.5, but I have some problems.

when the sun boots I got the following message:

WARNING: /sbus@1f,0/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@4,0 (sd4):
 corrupt label - wrong magic number
Vendor 'FUJITSU', product 'M2954S-512', 8498506 512 byte blocks

My following step was to make a label to the disk

# format
Searching for disks...done
 
 
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0t0d0 <SUN1.05 cyl 2036 alt 2 hd 14 sec 72>
          /sbus@1f,0/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@0,0
       1. c0t4d0 <FUJITSU-M2954S-512-0147 cyl 5074 alt 2 hd 9 sec 186>
          /sbus@1f,0/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@4,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 1

selecting c0t4d0
[disk formatted]

Here is where I get the problems

format> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y
 
Warning: error writing VTOC.
Warning: no backup labels
Label failed.

I don't know what's the meaning of VTOC.
I tried to format the disk but I got more problems.

format> format
Ready to format. Formatting cannot be interrupted
and takes 36 minutes (estimated). Continue? y
Beginning format. The current time is Fri Mar 14 18:30:04 1997
 
Formatting...
Format failed
 
Retry of formatting operation without any of the standard
mode selects and ignoring disk's Grown Defects list. The
disk may be able to be reformatted this way if an earlier
formatting operation was interrupted by a power failure or
SCSI bus reset. The Grown Defects list will be recreated
by format verification and surface analysis.
 
Retry format without mode selects and Grown Defects list? y
Formatting...
Hardware error during format
ASC: 0xc4 ASCQ: 0xd
failed

If I label the disk now I get more errors

format> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y
 
Warning: error writing VTOC.
Medium error during read
ASC: 0x31 ASCQ: 0x1
Warning: error reading backup label.
Medium error during read
ASC: 0x31 ASCQ: 0x1
Warning: error reading backup label.
Medium error during read
ASC: 0x31 ASCQ: 0x1
Warning: error reading backup label.
Medium error during read
ASC: 0x31 ASCQ: 0x1
Warning: error reading backup label.
Medium error during read
ASC: 0x31 ASCQ: 0x1
Warning: error reading backup label.
Warning: no backup labels
Label failed.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance
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 DVnet, Servicios Telematicos | 47151 Boecillo (Valladolid-Spain)
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