Summary: Is this disk dead?

From: Bryan Guest, BMI Internet (bryan.guest_at_bmts.com)
Date: 02/18/04

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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:02:06 -0500

    Short answer: No! I just wasn't waiting long enough for format to through
    SCSI errors.

    I ran format again and it spit out the original error 20 times, then a wrong
    magic number error:

    scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@9,0 (sd8):
     Corrupt label; wrong magic number

    and then happily proceeded to format the disk...

    Verifying media...
            pass 0 - pattern = 0xc6dec6de
       3879/15/99
            pass 1 - pattern = 0x6db6db6d
       3879/15/99
    Total of 0 defective blocks repaired.

    Thanks to Bob Payne, Tobias Kronwitter and Darren Dunham for their replies.

    Tobias suggested:
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c0t9d0s2
    Which did work, once but I could not repeat it again.

    My appreciation to the list and big shout out to everyone who is away from
    their office!
    Bryan Guest

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Bryan Guest, BMI Internet" <bryan.guest@bmts.com>
    To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
    Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:39 AM
    Subject: Is this disk dead? Unable to format.

    > Hello:
    >
    > I have recently tried to format and recycle some older 4.2Gb drives.
    >
    > When I first stuck them in a system (E250), they all powered up and showed
    a
    > default disk label/partition.
    >
    > However when I tried to format the first one, it appears the disk went
    > offline. In any event the machine hung on the following SCSI error:
    >
    > scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3 (glm0):
    > Disconnected tagged cmd(s) (1) timeout for Target 9.0
    > glm: [ID 401478 kern.warning] WARNING: ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6018]
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