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solaris mode sense page 0x3 (and probably 0x4) failures

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:09 am
by tech2187
trying to format a disk on solaris 9:
# format -M
Searching for disks...
c1t65d0: attempting auto configuration
Inquiry:
00 00 03 02 5b 00 00 71 52 4f 43 4b 45 54 20 20 ....[..qROCKET
49 4d 47 20 44 49 53 4b 20 31 30 20 4d 42 20 20 IMG DISK 10 MB
30 30 30 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0001............
Product id: IMG DISK 10 MB
Capacity: 00 00 00 00 00 00 4f ff 00 00 02 00
blocks: 20479 (0x4fff)
blksize: 512
disk name: `10 MB `
Request sense for command mode sense failed
Sense data:
Mode sense page 0x3 failed
Configuration via generic SCSI-2 information failed

i can probably configure this by hand however it would be nice to not have to

ver 3.1 of starwind

also missing is the drive serial number...

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:15 am
by tech2187
Vendor id : ROCKET
Product id : IMG DISK 10 MB
Revision : 0001
Serial Number :

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:14 pm
by anton (staff)
It would not be single point of failure. Solaris uses much larger set of features from disks it thinks are SCSI (compared to other OSes). You may write down more details about you, your project and purchase details to support@rocketdivision.com and we'll try to find the solution. Thanks!

sent email...

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:51 pm
by tech2187
more details of what we are trying to do...

Re: sent email...

Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:29 pm
by anton (staff)
Got your e-mail. Checking what's could be done.
tech2187 wrote:more details of what we are trying to do...