3B2 Drives
Eric J. Nihill
eric at sactoh0.SAC.CA.US
Thu Nov 1 07:22:22 AEST 1990
I am attempting to use a few Maxtor XT-1065 drives on a
AT&T 3B2/400.
I can get the drive to write the defect table and to format.
When I attempt to write the sanity pattern, however, I get
the following message:
GETPHYS: Could not initialize disk 0
If I attempt to write the sanity pattern for the second time,
the hard disk lets out a howl and then writes the pattern ok.
The drive seems to be very noisy. As it is formatting and
verifing, the drive makes a serirs of regular clicks. Also, upon
first power-up, the drive will let out a howl.
After writing the pattern, I can start loading the core. However,
when I get to the point that the system tries to restart itself
from hard disk, (first core disk), I get the following:
SELF-CHECK
FW ERROR 1-02: DISK SANITY FAILURE
EXECUTION HALTED
SYSTEM FAILURE: CONSULT YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION UTILITES GUIDE
This is not isolated to one drive. Several model XT-1065's
and XT-1140's are doing on several different 3B2/310 and
3B2/400's.
The drives have been deemed good by a service facility.
Is there a hardware incompatability between Maxtor drives and
AT&T 3B2's?
I am using idtools and also connected to the mother board.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Eric
eric at sactoh0.SAC.CA.US
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