SCSI Parameter Page 4 is "Rigid Disk Drive Geometry"...  Not sure
about page 5.

Sounds like your drive is not responding to the Mode Sense command.

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> I have a SCSI disk which I just did a format on, and now I cannot get NetBSD 
> to not tell me:
> # disklabel sd1
> sd1: fabricating a geometry
> ...
>
> I've looked some at the code, and a figure sd_get_params_page[45]() both 
> fail, for some reason.
>
> Can anyone give me some clues here, or a solution? I'm not sure what these 
> pages are. Areas on the disk? Something stored somewhere else on disk which I 
> clobbered?
> I don't know (remember) if the disk behaved the same before the format. And 
> the format was because I wanted to test if I could solve another problem with 
> that disk.
>
> 	Johnny
>
> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
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> email: bqt@update.uu.se           ||  Reading murder books
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>

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