trying to install version 11

[fvdw]

I get a steady blue light, then it blinks for a couple of seconds, and after, the blue light stays steady and the red light blinks.

this means that the boot loader can not read the disk....

I think that as long as physical sector size is not 512 bytes it won't be able to read it.....

[fvdw]

ps maybe Gparted can set logical sector size , but sector size is something which is normally set in the factory producing the disks, the advanced disk have then in the firmware they have on the disk an emulation program to support logical sector of 512 bytes, for whatever reason the disk seems to have lost that setting. I don't know if it can be restored :dontknow but maybe seagate can answer this question or has software to setup the disk

[fvdw]

this the output from a the command "

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hdparm -I /dev/sda

it gives detailed info in the disk, it is the same disk as yours but you can see it has logical sector size of 512 bytes and physical size of 4096 bytes)
(note that cylinders, heads values differe from waht fdiks reports ??)

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root@nwsp2-3:/ # hdparm -I /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       ST2000DL001-9VT156
        Serial Number:      5YD4LGD9
        Firmware Revision:  CC41
        Transport:          Serial, SATA Rev 3.0
Standards:
        Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x0029)
        Supported: 8 7 6 5
        Likely used: 8
Configuration:
        Logical         max     current
        cylinders       16383   16383
        heads           16      16
        sectors/track   63      63
        --
        CHS current addressable sectors:   16514064
        LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
        LBA48  user addressable sectors: 3907029168
        Logical  Sector size:                   512 bytes
        Physical Sector size:                  4096 bytes
        Logical Sector-0 offset:                  0 bytes
        device size with M = 1024*1024:     1907729 MBytes
        device size with M = 1000*1000:     2000398 MBytes (2000 GB)
        cache/buffer size  = unknown
        Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 5900
Capabilities:
        LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
        Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = ?
        Recommended acoustic management value: 208, current value: 208
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
             Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
        Enabled Supported:
           *    SMART feature set
                Security Mode feature set
           *    Power Management feature set
           *    Write cache
           *    Look-ahead
           *    Host Protected Area feature set
           *    WRITE_BUFFER command
           *    READ_BUFFER command
           *    DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
                SET_MAX security extension
           *    Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
           *    48-bit Address feature set
           *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set
           *    Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
           *    FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
           *    SMART error logging
           *    SMART self-test
           *    General Purpose Logging feature set
           *    WRITE_{DMA|MULTIPLE}_FUA_EXT
           *    64-bit World wide name
                Write-Read-Verify feature set
           *    WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command
           *    {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands
           *    Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
           *    Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
           *    Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
           *    unknown 76[3]
           *    Phy event counters
           *    unknown 76[15]
                Device-initiated interface power management
           *    Software settings preservation
           *    SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
           *    SCT Long Sector Access (AC1)
           *    SCT LBA Segment Access (AC2)
           *    SCT Features Control (AC4)
           *    SCT Data Tables (AC5)
                unknown 206[12] (vendor specific)
Security:
        Master password revision code = 65534
                supported
        not     enabled
        not     locked
        not     frozen
        not     expired: security count
                supported: enhanced erase
        320min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 320min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 5000c50039215dff
        NAA             : 5
        IEEE OUI        : 000c50
        Unique ID       : 039215dff
Checksum: correct
root@nwsp2-3:/ #

[fvdw]

sorry I do not know how to attach an image....

use the upload attachement feature when posting a message. If the format is not supported put it in a zip archive and upload that

[galaberta]

this is what I get from Gparted
and... surprise: this is what I get when I run hdparm -I /dev/sdb

ATA device, with non-removable media
Standards:
Likely used: 1
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 0 0
heads 0 0
sectors/track 0 0
--
Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes
device size with M = 1024*1024: 0 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 0 MBytes
cache/buffer size = unknown
Capabilities:
IORDY not likely
Cannot perform double-word IO
R/W multiple sector transfer: not supported
DMA: not supported
PIO: pio0


After all, this is good news, as I think that something failed in the format?? I do not think that the HDD is broken, as just before this, I could save some files there using a "normal" format....

Thanks

[fvdw]

Logical max current
cylinders 0 0
heads 0 0
sectors/track 0 0
--
Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes
device size with M = 1024*1024: 0 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 0 MBytes

the zero's in this output are strange, also physical sector size is strange...
Also if logical and physical sector size was really 512 Bytes then the partition table we used is wrong 8 cylinders with sector size of 512 Bytes can not give 514 MB
Maybe this hdparm command on the version of linux you use is different form mines and give wrong output. Alo a lot of info is missing
I think the hdparm output is not reliable in your case

In the screenshot that you sent I see that for instance sdb1 has size of 514 MB and that 443MB is used. thats strange as the firmware image file of fvdw-sl-11-0 is only 200 MB :scratch

Maybe the fact that the firmware image were made for a partition with logical sector size of 512 they don't work on that disk that has 4096 Bytes for logical sector.
That could be solved by formatting the partition sdb1, sbd2 and sdb7 in ext3 (as done for sda5) and extract a tar archive of the firmware instead of the disk image file... :thinking

[fvdw]

I will send you a pm with an instruction and "tar" archive. Maybe it works ;)

[galaberta]

Hi again,
I have tried what you sent me in the pm, but I feel stupid, I can not copy the files into the sdb1, sdb2 and sdb7.
I think I have followed all the steps:
1)create the folder fvdw-sl-nwsp2 (mkdir fvdw-sl-nwsp2)
2)mount the sdb1 on the mountpoint (mount /dev/sdb1 fvdw-sl-nwsp2)
3)extract the .tar file (tar -xvf fvdw-sl-13-0-nwsp2-25sept12.tar)
4) un-mount sdb1 (umount fvdw-sl-nwsp2)

And the same for all the rest sdb2 and 7.
Apparently, it does everything right, even when executing the tar it brings a lot of files to the screen, but after, the folder is empty....
As an example, the following is the last three files of the ubuntu after executing the tar:
fvdw-sl-13-0-nwsp2/lib/libz.so.1
fvdw-sl-13-0-nwsp2/lib/libformat.so
fvdw-sl-13-0-nwsp2/lib/libncursesw.so.5
galaberta@galaberta-K61IC:~/Escritorio$ dir

Sorry about this, I am sure that I am doing something wrong, but could you tell me what??
Thanks again

[fvdw]

sorry my fault
the step
create the folder fvdw-sl-nwsp2 (mkdir fvdw-sl-nwsp2)

should be

create the folder fvdw-sl-13-0-nwsp2 (mkdir fvdw-sl-13-0-nwsp2)

[galaberta]

Hi,
Now I could copy the files, but awfully, when I plugged the NS2, still the blue and red blinking...
The Gparted looks like the attached file. Now the sdb1, 2 and 7 have 160 mb each.
Any other suggestion?
Thanks