Path: utzoo!censor!geac!blister!micasa!jzl
From: jzl@micasa.UUCP (Jack Z. Lupic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Cannot Low Level Format St-4086>94155-86 Imprimis Drive
Keywords: Hard Drive,Imprimis,Format
Message-ID: <e5TgR4w163w@micasa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 90 19:08:13 EDT
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Organization: MSDOS Gateway to Usenet/Internet


I just got a used Imprimis Drive <94155-86> which is a Seagate 
equivalent to an ST-4086 and have tried to low level format it
with an XT controller <WD2>.

The format fails giving me "Error---completion code 80".

The parameters I have used are:

debug
-g=c800:5

When asked if I am dynamically configuring the drive I answer Y <yes>
and add the following parameters:

925 9 926 926 11 5 

After the drive has been formatting for about 15min the error "80"
appears.Fdisk <<MSDOS 3.3> does NOT recognise this drive

What is "error 80"? Can anyone shed some light on the problem?

This is the first drive in the chain of two drives thus the first 
drive jumper is used on the Imprimis <cable with no twist>.

The existing ST251-1 and ST412 have been working in a two drive 
configuration for about two years.


Jack Lupic

Toronto,Ontario-CANADA