Thank you all for your great advice. Actually we did succeed with the Hitachi drives. Thank you very very much. Dan Porat On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Porat <dan.porat@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Dan> [root@fedora13 ~]# sg_inq /dev/sdb > [...] > Dan> [root@fedora13 ~]# sg_readcap /dev/sdb > [...] > > I asked for EXTENDED INQUIRY and READ CAPACITY(16). > > # sg_inq -x /dev/sdb > # sg_readcap -l /dev/sdb > > It does not look like you have reformatted the drive, though... > > -- > Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html