Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!cbmnlu1!arno
From: arno@cbmnlu1.cbm.nl (Arno Griffioen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Bizarre problems with the new Maxtor 120M SCSI drive
Message-ID: <2060@cbmnlu1.cbm.nl>
Date: 24 Jun 91 08:21:05 GMT
References: <25594@well.sf.ca.us> <1991Jun22.163456.9218@comspec.uucp> <25635@well.sf.ca.us>
Reply-To: arno@cbmnlu1.cbm.nl (Arno Griffioen)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Commodore Nederland B.V. Unix Support Center
Lines: 46

In article <25635@well.sf.ca.us> cassiel@well.sf.ca.us (Paul Theodoropoulos) writes:
>format drive mdh0: name maxtor0 ffs noicons
>
>(without the 'quick' option), the format will lock up after anywhere from
>14 cylinders to 130 cylinders formatted and verified (by "lock up" i mean
>that the harddrive light locks on, the pointer locks up, everything. i have
>to reboot.) if i format using the 'quick' option, it seems to work, and

OK, I've seen this before. Did you turn reselect _OFF_???? The maxtor
probably can't handle it (unlike a Quantum). If reselect is on and the
drive doesn't support it, this is the exact result I saw... I believe it's
in the extended options of the HDtoolbox. (btw. did you do a low-level?)

>another oddity is that if i use HDToolBox, and simply repartition the drive,
>after rebooting, the icon for the drive will come up titled with odd 
>characters after the device name (one's that i can't recreate with this
>terminal program), like MDH0: followed by four 'u's with umlauts.

That's normal. The data on the drive before formatting is bogus, so it
just guesses a name and prepends the device name. You'll have to do a real
format to get it right.

>i think the most telling info i've gotten back so far is when using
>Quarterback Tools, i select "show volume space fragmentation" and it
>reports back "disk error reading bitmap". unfortunately, though qbtools

It's not formatted, so that's correct...

>my brain is starting to hurt....!   

Just try to turn reselect off and see if it helps. I think so...

>paul theodoropoulos              cassiel@well.sf.ca.us

						Bye Arno.

--
Arno Griffioen             |  Commodore Nederland B.V. Unix Support Center
Email: arno@cbmnlu1.cbm.nl |  Tel: (+31) 020-5806748
   or: arno@cbm.nl         |  
 "The light at the end of the tunnel... Is the headlamp of an oncoming train!"