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From: tjhayko@thunder.lakeheadu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Seagate drive occasionally goes God knows where
Message-ID: <44076@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 91 08:25:57 GMT
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I've just purchased an Pacific Peripherals  OverDrive  SCSI  con-
troller  and  a  Seagate  ST125N hard drive.  Occasionally, after
parking the hard drive, it takes several (last time it  was  ten)
attempts  to  reboot  and  mount  the  hard drive (the controller
doesn't have autoboot ROMS).  What I had to do this last time was
start up the OverDrive utilities program and attempt to check for
bad blocks.  The software told me that is was requesting a  sense
code,  and  then  it  locked  up.   After that (and several other
things) it booted it up and the drive  came  up  fine.   When  it
doesn't  come up, I can hear the head seeking back and forth very
rapidly and then the drive light  flashes  eight  short  flashes.
Does  this  mean anything to anyone?  And please, no flames about
Seagate drives, I'm going to replace it with something better  as
soon as I have the cash (I'm a poor undergraduate :( ).






PS. on the limited docs that came with the drive, I have hardware
        revision level 4, firmware level 120 and ROM 106.  Could I have
        buggy roms?


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