Re: Using HDD from AS on Unix

["Charles Wilt" <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

The SCSI drives for an AS-400 have something like a 526 byte sector.

IIRC, they can be (low-level?) reformatted, into 512 for use by other
systems.  But I've never done it, perhaps somebody else here has or
check the archives and/or the web.

Charles

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Tomasz Skorża <t.skorza@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> Is this possible to use 17 GB SCSI disk running earlier on AS400 on Unix
> machine (also IMB x server)?
>
> When We try to do it get message:
>
> sd2 at scsibus1 target 2 lun 0: <IBMAS400, DRVS18D, 1606> disk fixed
> sd2(ahd1:0:2:0): preposterous sector size: 0x20a.  Defaulting to 512 bytes.
> sd2: 16742 MB, 29550 cyl, 2 head, 580 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 34287616 sectors
> sd2: sync (12.50ns offset 63), 16-bit (160.000MB/s) transfers, tagged
> queueing
> ses0 at scsibus1 target 8 lun 0: <IBM, 40K6480a S320  0, 1> processor fixed
> ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device
> ses0: async, 8-bit transfers
> sd2(ahd1:0:2:0): preposterous sector size: 0x20a.  Defaulting to 512 bytes.
> sd2(ahd1:0:2:0): generic HBA error
> sd2: dos partition I/O error
> sd2(ahd1:0:2:0): generic HBA error
> findroot: unable to read block 64
> sd2(ahd1:0:2:0): generic HBA error
>
> is this probloem with disk? controler? file format?
> Regards
>
> tomek
>
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