Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!indetech!daver!bungi.com!news Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: pc532's and ST296N's Message-ID: Date: 1 Jan 91 05:06:19 GMT Sender: news@daver.bungi.com Lines: 70 Approved: news@daver.bungi.com Well, here I go again... I just bought an 80MB ST296N for my pc532. I plugged it in, and can read the disk, but only with small reads (about 10 blocks or less). It can SOMETIMES make a read with about 10 to 15 blocks after a few failures... Here is a (short) transcript of what happens. My copy of ANSI X3.131-1986 should arrive in the next few days, but I wonder if that will help much. Does anyone have a phone number for Seagate, so I can order the product/technical/OEM manual for the thing. The ONLY number that came with the disk is a "do-it-yourself'ers" 900 number (1st minute free $2.00/minute after) and a little booklet telling me how to install a 3.5 or 5.25 MFM/RLL/SCSI drive into a PC-XT/AT/Clone. I really don't want to risk $20 on some machine recording just to get a phone number to call to order a real manual... --- Power up here --- NS32000 ROM Debugger Version: Tue Jul 03 09:44:00 PDT 1990 RAM free above 0x1554 Command (? for help): read 0 2000 1 SCSI ok with recovery, code 0x10, logical address 0x0 Command (? for help): write 0 2000 1 SCSI failure, key 0x4, code 0x14, log adr 0x0, sense buf 0x1530 SCSI failure, key 0x4, code 0x14, log adr 0x0, sense buf 0x1530 SCSI failure, key 0x4, code 0x14, log adr 0x0, sense buf 0x1530 SCSI failure, key 0x4, code 0x14, log adr 0x0, sense buf 0x1530 SCSI failure, key 0x4, code 0x14, log adr 0x0, sense buf 0x1530 SCSI failure, key 0x4, code 0x14, log adr 0x0, sense buf 0x1530 SCSI WRITE, block 0 failed even after retries Error 1 Command (? for help): dump 2000 200 00002000 33 C0 8E D8 | BE 16 7C EB | 02 CD 10 B4 | 0E 33 DB AC 3.....|......3.. 00002010 0A C0 75 F5 | EB FE 59 6F | 75 72 20 6E | 65 77 20 53 ..u...Your new S 00002020 65 61 67 61 | 74 65 20 64 | 72 69 76 65 | 20 6D 75 73 eagate drive mus 00002030 74 20 62 65 | 20 69 6E 73 | 74 61 6C 6C | 65 64 20 74 t be installed t 00002040 6F 20 62 65 | 63 6F 6D 65 | 20 62 6F 6F | 74 61 62 6C o become bootabl 00002050 65 0D 0A 0D | 0A 42 6F 6F | 74 20 66 72 | 6F 6D 20 79 e....Boot from y 00002060 6F 75 72 20 | 44 4F 53 20 | 64 69 73 6B | 65 74 74 65 our DOS diskette 00002070 2C 20 74 68 | 65 6E 20 74 | 79 70 65 2E | 2E 2E 0D 0A , then type..... 00002080 0D 0A 20 20 | 20 20 20 43 | 3A 49 4E 53 | 54 41 4C 4C .. C:INSTALL 00002090 52 20 43 20 | 11 D9 0D 0A | 0D 0A 20 20 | 20 20 20 2E R C ...... . 000020A0 2E 2E 74 6F | 20 62 65 67 | 69 6E 20 74 | 68 65 20 69 ..to begin the i 000020B0 6E 73 74 61 | 6C 6C 61 74 | 69 6F 6E 00 | 00 00 00 00 nstallation..... 000020C0 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 000020D0 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 000020E0 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 000020F0 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 00002100 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 00002110 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 00002120 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 00002130 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 00002140 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 00002150 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 00002160 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ ... 00002170 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 00002180 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 00002190 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 000021A0 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 000021B0 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 000021C0 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 000021D0 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 000021E0 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 ................ 000021F0 02 00 01 05 | 22 0F 01 00 | 00 00 BF 0C | 00 00 55 AA ....".........U. Command (? for help): -- Jon Buller jonb@vector.dallas.tx.us ..!texsun!vector!jonb FROM Fortune IMPORT Quote; FROM Lawyers IMPORT Disclaimer;