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Re: ST15230WC trouble

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Mar 10 11:56:55 1998

Date: 	Mon, 9 Mar 1998 14:18:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
cc: ncr53c810@Colorado.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980308212154.576J-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:

> I put an IDE disk in this new system just to get Linux installed so I could
> mess with the ST15230WC and easily log what was going on.  First time I used
> modprobe to load the ncr8xx driver, the system hung after a few complaints.
> Mar  9 10:03:30 io5 kernel:   Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST15230W SUN4.2G  Rev: 0738
> Mar  9 10:03:30 io5 kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Mar  9 10:03:30 io5 kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Mar  9 10:04:02 io5 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 16, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
> Mar  9 10:04:02 io5 kernel: ncr53c8xx_abort: pid=16 serial_number=31 serial_number_at_timeout=31

Ok...ignore my previous posts about problems with a ST15230WC.  As one
pesimist suggested, I've now determined the drive was simply DOA.  Another
identical drive from the same order works fine in the system above.  The
one that works is also much quieter than the DOA one :)

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