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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unidui!flyer!flatlin!bad
- From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
- Subject: Re: Formatting an IBM OEM drive
- Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 12:05:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <By2Ewq.9tz@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
- References: <1992Nov20.162216.6115@mcs.anl.gov>
- Keywords: IBM drive format 3.0
- Lines: 18
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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
-