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From: mscritsm@isis.cs.du.edu (Milton Scritsmier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Formatting Hitachi drives
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Date: 26 Jun 91 02:09:22 GMT
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We have some high capacity Hitachi SCSI drives which we would like to add
to our Mips 120-5, running version 4.51 of the OS.  While the drive is not
officially supported by Mips, it seems to be a CCS or SCSI-2 compatible
drive.  When we try to format these drives as unit 3, lun 0, we get
an error message which says:

   SCSI 310:  Device is wrong type.  Cannot open dkis(0,3,10).

This seems to suggest that the system format command needs to see some
header on a drive on which we are trying to destroy all the data during the
format command!  Is there some way around this paradox?  Is there a method
for formatting and prepping a SCSI drive which is not supported by Mips?