Re: NW41 ST32550 drive deactivation?

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From: Wanne de Kler
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 00:00

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In article <439de8$agq@white.lambton.on.ca>,
   david@white.lambton.on.ca (David Grant) wrote:
>I think I've seen references to this in the past but they have all
>expired from our news server!
>
>I've got a Seagate ST32550N 2Gb SCSI drive on an Adaptec 2940 thats
>deactivating.  I've upgraded the controller BIOS from v1.11 to v1.16
>but the problem remains.
>
>Is there a utility that I can use to probe the drive's firmware
>paramaters?  This combination worked with the old ST12550N drives.
>
>What's changed?
>
>Dave

You can get an aspi utility from http://www.seagate.com/ I don't remember its 
exact name but it shouldn't be to hard to find (contact me if you can't find 
it). You can look up the firmware level of the drive and you can deactivate 
the write caching. I had the firmware upgraded and deactivated the write 
caching and I didn't have any problems since. They'll reformat the drive when 
they upgrade the firmware so I should try disabling the write cache first 
(that should be the main problem of this drive with Netware).

Wanne.

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From: wdekler@nufficcs.nl (Wanne de Kler)
Subject: Re: NW41 ST32550 drive deactivation?
Date: 1995/09/15
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