[Coco] B&B HD Setup

[t.fadden at cox.net]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:21 AM , Gene Heskett wrote:


> On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Steven Hirsch wrote:

>> On Tue, 5 May 2009, tonym wrote:

>>> I finally aborted it at the 36-hour mark.

>>>

>>> Surely there is something wrong at that point....

>>

>> Tony,

>>

>> Was the drive actually doing something all that time, or was the 

>> system

>> frozen?  This was the verify phase of format, correct?  You should 

>> have

>> been seeing hex block addresses scrolling by constantly.

>>

>> If not, perhaps you were bitten by the same problem I was.  Unless 

>> you set

>> a flag (forget what it's called), the terminal pauses at the end of a 

>> page

>> and waits... forever.

>

> tmode .1 -pause

> effective only for that window.  But Tony said it was clicking, in 

> which case he should have seen the sector numbers marching by on that 

> same screen.


I have seen dead drives click continiously trying to find head position 
information.  got on my work bench right now! ha ha ha


>

>> I was yanking hair out of my head over this while setting up a 

>> Seagate

>> disk on my B&B controller.  It would chug along for a while and just 

>> stop.

>> However, the light on the drive went out and it was clear nothing was

>> happening.  So, might be a red-herring.

>>

>> Steve

>

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