[Coco] Burke & Burke controller problems

[Sean]

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

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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