[Coco] Burke & Burke controller problems

[Sean]

Nope, I definitely parked the heads.  Just the issues of moving
antique hard drives I guess.

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Sean wrote:

>

>> Is this the drive I sent with the controller, or a different drive?

>

> Unfortunately the drive you shipped was toast.  I could read the directory,

> but that's about it.  I'm thinking maybe it wasn't parked before shipment?

>  Not a big deal either way - I have plenty of old drives around.

>

> The ones I'm having problems with are an ST225 and ST251 out of my junk bin.

>  Both of them hang at the same point during verify, but seem to be working

> fine if I simply format without verification.

>

> Not really sure what the heck is going on.

>

>

>

>> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>

>>> I'm pulling what little hair I have left out of my head...  I'm trying to

>>> setup a Seagate ST225 hard drive for use with this controller (the exact

>>> disk model it's intended to be used with).

>>>

>>> Everything goes well until physical verify.  It counts up to 0EF and just

>>> stops.  The drive access light goes out and the computer is not

>>> responsive.

>>>  100% repeatable.

>>>

>>> Thinking the drive might be bad, I tried an ST251.  Same exact thing!  It

>>> counts to 0EF and stops.

>>>

>>> Does anyone have an idea about this?  Why on earth does it simply stop?

>>>  I

>>> could see getting hung on a bad sector, but if that was happening the

>>> access

>>> light would stay on.

>>>

>>> Steve

>>>

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