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From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@broadpark.no>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Is there hope for this drive?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 07:21:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <410F20F6.40802@broadpark.no> (raw)

I recently got a couple of used IBM Ultrastar drives.
They worked at first, but one of them suddenly stopped responding to
read/write requests.

"scsiinfo -i /dev/sdc" still provides info about it, but
"scsiinfo -a /dev/sdc" provides no more information because every operation
except the basic inquiry fails:
"Unable to read Rigid Disk Geometry Page 04h" and so on.

Partitioning and low-level formatting with scsiformat is impossible.

I wonder if there is anything more I could try before throwing away the drive.
It is strange to be able to "contact" the drive but not use it.  It spins up
at boot as it should.  Any ideas?

Helge Hafting

             reply	other threads:[~2004-08-03  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-03  5:21 Helge Hafting [this message]
2004-08-03  9:14 ` Is there hope for this drive? Matthias Andree

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