I've included below the replies.
Many thanks to the following managers that respond promptly.
Richard Skelton <rich@brake.demon.co.uk>
John DiMarco <jdd@db.toronto.edu>
Martin Achilli <martin@gea.hsr.it>
Henry Katz <hkatz@lehman.com>
Bern@penthesilea.Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)
Original Post:
Dear Sun Managers,
I just inherited this Sun IPC running SunOS 4.1.3
And this is the first time I saw this error message:
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sd3 at esp0 target 0 lun 0
sd3: corrupt label - bad geometry
sd3: Label says 676305 blocks, Drive says 675484 blocks
sd3: Vendor 'MAXTOR', product '7345-SCSI', 675484 512 byte blocks
le0 at SBus slot 0 0xc00000 pri 5
cgthree0 at SBus slot 2 0x0 pri 7
bwtwo0 at SBus slot 3 0x0 pri 7
fd0 at obio 0xf7200000 pri 11
root on sd0a fstype 4.2
swap on sd0b fstype spec size 23004K
dump on sd0b fstype spec size 22992K
Is it a serious error message? Do I need to replace the disk? What cause
the label to get corrupted? I assume that I need to reformat, partition and
relabel the disk. Is it correct? Please help me.
Thanks, Aline...
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From: SMTP%"rich@brake.demon.co.uk"
Hi Aline,
I had this problem with a SUN0207 (Maxtor) drive I labeled it as a Maxtor
LXT-200S and have been using the drive witout any problems for the past
10 months.
I think my drive is faulty towards the end of the drive so formating it as
a smaller drive seems to fix the problem.
I would like to know why this works!!
Please summarize.
Hope this helps.
---From: SMTP%"jdd@db.toronto.edu"
In list.sun-managers you write:
>Is it a serious error message?
Serious enough.
>Do I need to replace the disk?
Perhaps, if the problem reoccurs.
>What caused the label to get corrupted?
Perhaps labelling the disk with an incorrect format.dat entry.
>I assume that I need to reformat, partition and >relabel the disk. Is it correct? Please help me. Relabelling should be enough.
Regards,
John ---
From: SMTP%"martin@gea.hsr.it"
>From my experience it means that the drive has been formatted incorrectly. You need to create a correct format.dat entry, label & reformat the drive.
Martin ---
From: SMTP%"hkatz@lehman.com"
On Fri, 23 Sep 1994, Aline H. Runde - MicroModule Systems wrote: > Is it a serious error message? Do I need to replace the disk? What cause > the label to get corrupted? I assume that I need to reformat, partition and > relabel the disk. Is it correct? Please help me. No - just repartition and relabel. Hint: also run scsiinfo to inspect your format parameters.
Henry ---
From: SMTP%"bern@uni-trier.de"
> sd3 at esp0 target 0 lun 0 > sd3: corrupt label - bad geometry > sd3: Label says 676305 blocks, Drive says 675484 blocks > sd3: Vendor 'MAXTOR', product '7345-SCSI', 675484 512 byte blocks > Is it a serious error message?
Yes and no. It means that the OS won't be able to use the Disk the Way it is.
> Do I need to replace the disk?
Maybe, but try reformatting first.
> What cause the label to get corrupted?
Most likely: Someone low-Level accessed the Disk inappropriately, over- writing the Label.
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