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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Disk Trouble
Message-ID: <1529.26ed1c7b@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 11 Sep 90 05:18:51 GMT
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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Help!!! I have found a major incompatibility between Netware, A WD7000 FASST
SCSI controller and a Micropolis 1684-7 323Mb hard disk. Basically they just
won't work. Here's the setup.


A CBM 386SX@16Mhz, with the above hardware. Using DOS and the supplied SST
utilities (came with controller) the drive test's out perfect, no faults as you
would expect. However when I attempt to compsurf the damn thing, I get errors
on track 0 disk unusable!

I have tried everything. The disk is fine. It works under DOS, SST Disgnostics
passes it with flying colours. When I used disked on it, every write returns a
disk write error, completion code = 00 00 00 00 00 00. Doesn't matter where I
write to, but the data is written OK!

People who sold me the controller blame the disk, but the test software says
no. Columbia Data Products are the crowd that write the software for the
controller. Anybody got any ideas? The disk people are looking into it, but
there's only a couple of hours overlap in working between them and their help.

PS The ROM BIOS version on the controller is 3.34, and RAM BIOS version 3.35
The netware driver was SST Multifunction controller (old version) and the newer
SDLP driver that lets you have > 1 board in the server. No joy....

PPS. I tried another board and another machine (286 this time) still the same.
If this keeps up I might go MAD.

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