From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Bowes Subject: Re: Recover SCSI disks Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:35:59 +0100 Message-ID: <4358D29F.1010206@robinbowes.com> References: <4358404B.9080006@torque.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.97.75]:36307 "EHLO mail.metronet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964842AbVJULgZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:36:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4358404B.9080006@torque.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: dougg@torque.net Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Douglas Gilbert said the following on 21/10/2005 02:11: > Robin, > You may like to fetch sg3_utils and try sg_format thus: > sg_format /dev/sda > assuming a disk you have fetched from the array is placed > at /dev/sda . Douglas, THanks for the tip, I'll give it a go. > If that fails, the disk is probably dead. Otherwise it > should tell you several things (and doesn't change > anything). Often drives in RAIDs are formatted > to a sector size slightly greater than 512 bytes. To > re-use the disk (freestanding) in linux you will need to > format it back 512 bytes thus: > sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/sda > > A format may not be needed. In any case, the next step > would usually be to partition the disk (e.g. with fdisk) > then make a file system on one or more of its partitions > (e.g. with mkfs.ext3 ). The disk (or at least its partition) > should then be ready to mount and use. Thanks again, R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong?