[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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