SUMMARY: Transtec 5012 RAID (Zero-D)

Hi managers,

I solved this problem thanks to Martin Hepworth, Justin Stringfellow, Josh
Glover, Paul Greidanus. Thanks a lot for the quick answers.

It seems like the raid drive was a bit to big. There is a 1TB limit and if I
sliced the raid into two, 1TB, and 500GB then it worked just nicely.

Cheers,
Nickus

> Hi managers
>
> We bought a Transtec 5012 IDE/SCSI raid with 12x160GB Maxtor harddrives (It
> should be the same unit as the Zero-D X-3i - just rebranded by Transtec).
> The unit is configured as a raid 5 with 1 spare disk. The unit works fine
> when connected to either a Windows box or a Linux box. However, when I
> connect it to a Sun Enterprise 220R I run into trouble.
>
> I can see the drive when I use the probe-scsi command in the bootprom. I
> can also see the drive after a drvconfig and then format. But when I select
> the drive in format it cannot autoconfigure it.  I get the following
> output.
>
> I run format with -e flag. It doesn't matter what I specify as the way it
> should autoconfigure, I get the same error all the time.
>
> Does anyone have a good solution?
>
> Thanks,
> Niclas
>
> # output from format -e
>
>       14. c3t0d0 <drive type unknown>
>           /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1/sd@0,0
> Specify disk (enter its number): 14
>
>
>
> AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES:
>         0. Auto configure
>         1. Quantum ProDrive 80S
>         2. Quantum ProDrive 105S
>         3. CDC Wren IV 94171-344
>         4. SUN0104
>         5. SUN0207
>         6. SUN0327
>         7. SUN0340
>         8. SUN0424
>         9. SUN0535
>         10. SUN0669
>         11. SUN1.0G
>         12. SUN1.05
>         13. SUN1.3G
>         14. SUN2.1G
>         15. SUN2.9G
>         16. SUN18G
>         17. other
> Specify disk type (enter its number): 0
> Auto configuration via format.dat[no]?
> Auto configuration via generic SCSI-2[no]? yes
> Mode sense page(3) reports nsect value as 128, adjusting it to -43
> 1. Capacity = -2147482624, with pcyl = -390168 nhead = 128 nsect = -43
> 2. Capacity = -1100566016, with pcyl = 195413 nhead = 128 nsect = -44
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Cheers,
Nickus

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