Formatting an IBM OEM drive

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2 total messages Started by Peter A. Korp Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:22

#1899

Author: Peter A. Korp
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:22

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I have an external 1.2 GB disk that I wanted to connect to my
NeXT running 3.0. It was found on boot with this message:

> 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:
> /usr/etc/disk -i -h pipeline -l "UntitledDisk"  /dev/rsd1a
> disk name: IBM OEM 0663L12
> disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
> writing disk label
> sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid = 0x1c48,  
retry 1
 < This repeated 9 more times>

> 
> wtfs: I/O error

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.

--
	Peter A. Korp
	Assistant Scientist
	Argonne National Laboratory
	korp@eid.anl.gov

Re: Formatting an IBM OEM drive

#1912

Author: 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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