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Re: ST15230WC trouble

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Wreski)
Sun Mar 8 20:30:47 1998

Date: 	Sun, 8 Mar 1998 20:26:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Dave Wreski <dave@nic.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
cc: Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980308200216.576I-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>


> Has anyone tried one of those ST15230WC drives from onsale and gotten it
> to work?  I'm trying to build a new RH 4.2 system using one, and have
> tried NCR 810, NCR875J, and AHA1540C controllers.  All the controllers get
> timeouts and command aborts when trying to read or write to the drive.  I
> tried the 1540 thinking that I'd low level format it to wipe out whatever
> garbage formatting Sun put on it...but the format fails immediately.

So you don't think its a bad drive?  This has happened to me with bad
drives before...

I just got an IBM 4.3G UW drive for $259 at www.tjt.com if you can return
the one you have...

Dave


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