From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Helge Hafting Subject: Is there hope for this drive? Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 07:21:58 +0200 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <410F20F6.40802@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.broadpark.no ([217.13.4.2]:26007 "EHLO mail.broadpark.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264915AbUHCFZv (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 01:25:51 -0400 Received: from broadpark.no (220.80-202-18.nextgentel.com [80.202.18.220]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B80A6C98 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 07:26:24 +0200 (MEST) List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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