Problems formatting a drive

2007-12-25 8:07:00

I wrote in last week about problems I was having formatting a drive that

I already had a format.dat entry for. The drive was return messages that

made it appear like I was using the wrong geometry. Well, the service rep

came back, and he was stumped, as were the two techs at Sun. Convinced that

the new drive was faulty, he ordered another new drive, and, in the middle

of yet another format, took the cover off of the SPARC2 to get the model

number of the SCSI controller. When he was putting the cover back on, he

caused a power glitch (while the drive was trying to format). The machine

rebooted and (... say the magic words) the next format attempt worked. The

drive is now up and being used, but if anybody has any ideas about what

might have been wrong or how this may have solved the problem I'd like to

hear from you.

Thanks to those who replied:

Scott

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Scott Gargash

Cornell University

DMLL - Phonetics Laboratory

Phone (607) 255-0703

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