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Re: general problems with syquest 270MB drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcel Narings)
Tue Jun 24 18:19:31 1997
From: "Marcel Narings" <mnarings@iaehv.IAEhv.nl>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 00:12:27 +0200
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970624113851.21234C-100000@gibson.csa.de>
Hello Uwe,
> Hi!
> My syquest drive 270MB/rev. 3.14 doesn't work proper with linux. Again
> and again I get bad blocks with different cartridges. My vendor has
> exchanged the drive 2 times but the problems remain. When low-level
At work we 25 of these drives in combination with the AHA2940 and we
have exactly the same problems (using DOS or Linux).
> formating a cartridge with adaptec's 2940W firmware I sometimes get a
> "medium error" sensekey 3h, sensecode 32h and formating is aborted.
> Does anyone have a solution?
When formatting the cartrdiges using DOS, use the Syquest tools, and
it works ok. We also use these drives for Linux/Unix education, and
the same problem occurs when formatting using Linux. Unforunately I
don not have a solution for this (neither have Adaptec or SyQuest,
I've contacted them both). If someone has a solution, please let me
know.
Marcel