Emax

ok, so I finally figured out how to start the formatting process.  Now I get a hardware error after a little bit.  Prior to the format, the drive sounds like it's polling or something... then during the "formatting..." portion the drive quiets down, but goes back to the repetitive noise after the failure.  Does this sound familiar to anyone?  I have also noticed that sometimes the drive is not recognized until I go to another SCSI device id and then back to the one assigned to it.  Is this possibly just an incompatible drive?  It reads out the drive model on the screen, so it's got to be somewhat compatible.  I'm confused... old technology is so finicky.