Re: Formatting an IBM OEM drive

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From: Christoph Badura
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 12:05

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In <1992Nov20.162216.6115@mcs.anl.gov> korp@eid.anl.gov (Peter A. Korp) writes:
>> IBM OEM 0663L12 Rev s t  as sd1 at sc0 target 3 lun 0
>When I tried to format it I got the following errors in my console:
>> sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid = 0x1c48,  
>HELP... Any way to make it recognize this drive? Hate to think I have to  
>shell out ~$2,000 for a new drive of the same capacity.

I had to get new firmware for my adaptec 1542B that fixes similar
problems with the IBM drives.

It seems IBM has found a new way to interpret the SCSI standard, to
put it euphemistically.

-- 
				Christoph Badura  ---  bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

AIX is a better... is a better...  is a better... OpenSystem.
					IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92

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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: Formatting an IBM OEM drive
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 12:05:14 GMT
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