Re: tlug: SCSI and fdisk

[Christopher Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> 
> > So while mkfs was happy with it and I could mount it, fdisk pukes.  Trying
> > to create partition 1 gets me a message that it exists.  Trying to delete
> > partition 1, create any other partition, or print the partition table
> > causes a bus error and fdisk dumps core.  Fdisk can look at /dev/sda OK,
> > though (SCSI ID 3).

I've seen this before, but on 4.2.  ldd that fdisk binary and see which
libc it wants.  If it wants libc.so.5, upgrade.

> > Do I have something messed up in my configuration, or is this disk sick?
> > It's a Quantum ProDrive 425S.  It has a jumper for setting parity off or
> > on, and neither setting has any effect on the problem (however, which
> > should I set it to on a Sparc 1+?).

On.

> > Also, this disk runs REALLY hot. So hot I can't put my hand on it for more
> > than a couple of seconds, and much hotter than the Quantum Maverick 540
> > next to it (/dev/sda).

Shouldn't run that hot.

(and now commenting on Scott's post)

> Unfortunately I have no idea how to work with a Sun SCSI
> controller.... Chris?

Hmmm.  Termination, bad cable, or bad drive.  Barring software problem,
that is.

-- Chris

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