"Invalid Media Format" error

From: John F (john_at_SeeSigForAddress.invalid.com)
Date: 06/15/04

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    Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:18:07 +0000 (UTC)

    Got several Seagate ST15150N's (aka RZ29B's) that don't seem
    to want to mount/foreign or initialize, giving "Invalid Media
    Format" for both commands, regardless of switches/attributes
    I try to tack on. The disks are recognized okay using sh dev,
    both before and after boot, and scsi chain tests okay, etc.
    This is all on a DECstation 3000 600 running Alpha VMS 7.3
    booted off an RZ28 on the same chain.
         The only possible clue I noticed is that some ST15150N's
    (from an older batch) that do mount okay report 4.29GB from
    >>> sh dev, whereas these report 4.28GB.
         Google search turned up suggestions like
    init/over=(own,acc,exp), but that gives an error like
    "attribute not appropriate for device type" (override only
    applies to tapes). A few other google suggestions also didn't
    work. Any way to init these disks? I'm happy to clobber any
    data on them. Thanks, 

    -- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )
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