On Oct 16, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Derek G Nokes wrote: > I tried using format to format the drive and got the following: > > Ready to format. Formatting cannot be interrupted > and takes 5724 minutes (estimated). Continue? y > Beginning format. The current time is Sat Oct 16 23:58:17 2010 > > Formatting...
Uhm... silly question, but why are you formatting a disk? For the past 20+ years they come pre-formatted. You should not need to reformat a modern drive. > Format failed > > Retry of formatting operation without any of the standard > mode selects and ignoring disk's Grown Defects list. The > disk may be able to be reformatted this way if an earlier > formatting operation was interrupted by a power failure or > SCSI bus reset. The Grown Defects list will be recreated > by format verification and surface analysis. > > Retry format without mode selects and Grown Defects list? y > Formatting... > Illegal request during format > ASC: 0x24 ASCQ: 0x0 This is an indication that the features don't match. Perhaps a firmware bug? > Illegal request during format > ASC: 0x24 ASCQ: 0x0 > failed > > Is there any way for me to determine whether the disk is defective from > OpenSolaris? I tried rotating the disk to a different bay and the problem > moved to the new bay (c0t5000C500268D0821d0p0). When I try using format fdisk > I get an error as well (fdisk: Error in ioctl DKIOCSMBOOT on > /dev/rdsk/c0t5000C500268D0821d0p0) > > I also noticed that the format command take much much longer with this > particular disk compared to the other 7. Do yourself a favor and get rid of it. -- richard -- OpenStorage Summit, October 25-27, Palo Alto, CA http://nexenta-summit2010.eventbrite.com USENIX LISA '10 Conference, November 7-12, San Jose, CA ZFS and performance consulting http://www.RichardElling.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
