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In article <43b7ov$ho_001@nufficcs.nl.nufficcs.nl> wdekler@nufficcs.nl (Wanne de Kler) writes:
>In article <439de8$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.

The file name is aspi-cwe.zip and there some other files too.  Download them 
all and go through it.

I've been using seagate barracuda (2GB) and seagate Hawk (4GB) with my 
AHA-2742 controller with Netware without any deactivation problems.  The 
server is HP Netserver LM.  I'm not sure if the drives were shipped with cache 
disabled but I doubt it.   Anyway, it seems like drive deactivation on Netware 
is very hardware specific.

Daniel Tran - dtran@ucla.edu