[parisc-linux] Disk problems

[James Smith]

its the original seagate disk that came with it

the disk still works in the mac, so its not dead

i dont have anything other than macs & the workstations that are scsi

would a low level format on the mac do the same as low level using an
adaptec card ?

James S




On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 20:52, Derek Engelhaupt wrote:
> 
> Well quit putting them in those darn macs....just kidding.  Who makes the disk?  IBM has certain tools like their drive fitness tests that has saved me a few times.  Seagate and others probably have similar tools.  Check their support sites and it may just be a matter of the wrong block size written by your mac.  IBM drives are especially notorious for having weird block sizes and such.
> derek
>  James Smith <james@compusmithllc.com> wrote:I just got a pile of 712/60's - $80 for 10 of em :)
> 
> 
> i've set one up & now i'm going through the disks one at a time &
> cloning them as its quicker than going through the install each time
> 
> 
> i've hit one disk that gives me this whenever i try to fdisk it 
> 
> 
> sixty:~# fdisk /dev/sdb
> 
> Unable to read /dev/sdb
> 
> 
> when i tried to zero the disk, i got this....
> 
> sixty:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=1 bs=512 
> dd: writing `/dev/sdb': Input/output error
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 
> the console sees the disk when i use search 
> 
> does this indicate a dead disk?
> 
> the disk was ok until i put it into a mac......
> 
> James S
> 
> 
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