All,

I am trying to format a new hard drive. It is a Seagate Medalist Pro ST34342A located at http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/ata/st34342a.html.

Anyway, this drive was on a FreeBSD system and is now being installed on a Solaris 8 Ultra 10.

step 1: I define the type: cylinders, sectors, and heads.

format> type

AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES:
0. Seagate
1. Seagate
2. other
Specify disk type (enter its number)[1]: 2
Enter number of data cylinders: 8894
Enter number of alternate cylinders[2]:
Enter number of physical cylinders[8896]:
Enter number of heads: 15
Enter number of data sectors/track: 63
Enter rpm of drive[3600]: 4500
Enter format time[default]:
Enter cylinder skew[default]:
Enter track skew[default]:
Enter tracks per zone[default]:
Enter alternate tracks[default]:
Enter alternate sectors[default]:
Enter cache control[default]:
Enter prefetch threshold[default]:
Enter minimum prefetch[default]:
Enter maximum prefetch[default]:
Enter disk type name (remember quotes): Seagate
WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0 (dad1):
offline

selecting c0t1d0
dad1: disk okay
[disk formatted, no defect list found]

step 2: next I try to "label the disk"

format> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y

WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0 (dad1):
ID not found

WARNING: timeout: reset bus chno = 0 targ = 1

WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0 (dad1):
disk not responding to selection

WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0 (dad1):
ID not found

WARNING: timeout: reset bus chno = 0 targ = 1

WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0 (dad1):
ID not found

WARNING: timeout: reset bus chno = 0 targ = 1

Warning: error writing VTOC.
WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0 (dad1):
ID not found

WARNING: timeout: reset bus chno = 0 targ = 1

DIOCTL_RWCMD: I/O error
Warning: error reading backup label.
WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0 (dad1):
ID not found

WARNING: timeout: reset bus chno = 0 targ = 1

DIOCTL_RWCMD: I/O error
Warning: error reading backup label.
WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0 (dad1):
ID not found

WARNING: timeout: reset bus chno = 0 targ = 1

DIOCTL_RWCMD: I/O error
Warning: error reading backup label.
WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0 (dad1):
ID not found

WARNING: timeout: reset bus chno = 0 targ = 1

DIOCTL_RWCMD: I/O error
Warning: error reading backup label.
WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@1,0 (dad1):
ID not found

WARNING: timeout: reset bus chno = 0 targ = 1

DIOCTL_RWCMD: I/O error
Warning: error reading backup label.
Warning: no backup labels
Label failed.
format>

What are these errors and what do they mean? How do I get around this problem?