Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:33:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Wang <brian@vividnet.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need some advise on (ncr dead ?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961009133016.5099C-100000@cancer.vividnet.com> In-Reply-To: <199610091924.MAA07185@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > Having recently had someone bring me 3 of these to build systems with > that all turned up seriously damaged I suspect you have a bad drive here. > > Try to run a low level veryify on it, oopsss... ncr doesn't come > with a ``verify'' tool, well, do a low level format using SCSIFMT.EXE. > > I suspect you'll find a drive with 1000's of bad blocks on it and > that likes to spin down repeadly. > > > NOTE TO ALL OTHERS:: BE WARRY, there has been a product dump of IBM > 2G DORS drives into the grey market, the ones I looked at had been > physically damaged (broken scsi connectors) and had 100's if not > 1000's of bad sectors on them. These drives are going at prices that > look to good to be true ($350 and below), and it IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. > -- > Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com > Thanks for the info! I'm going to replace that damn HD. Sincerely, Brian
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