Emax

Are you sure the drive is good?

If there is some repetitive clunking, the drive could have bad (crashed)
heads.



On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:04 PM, evy_newt <evy_newt@...> wrote:

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> 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.
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