[Coco] Burke & Burke controller problems

[Steven Hirsch]

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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