[Sunhelp] External SCSI drives.

[Michael Horton]

In all likelihood, the hard drives with the wrong magic numbers and corrupt
labels are unusable.  My guess is that the hard drive is dead but the
onboard controller card is alive.  That would be one explanation for
probe-scsi(-all) to bring back any informaiton.  In any event, I have never
been able to use a drive in this condition.

HTH,

MH




At 07:12 PM 9/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey, I have a problem.  I came into 4 external SCSI SE, NCR, Hewlett
Crappard 
>drives, they're either 1 or 2 Gig each.  I hooked them up to my SCSI chain
on 
>my SS2, and got a funny message on boot.  It said wrong magic number, and 
>said that they had corrupt labels.  I probed them at the OK prompt and it 
>found them, but when I went into a shell and tried to format them, they 
>weren't there.  How do I fix this?  Or can I?  I also hooked them up to my 
>Sparcbook, and it just discombobulated everything, so I said screw that, the 
>Sbus SCSI controller on the SS2 seems to like them better anyway.  It
happens 
>no matter what ID I have them set to as well.
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff
>
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