[KLUG Members] SCSI question

[Adam Bultman]

Hello, gentlemen. Quick question here.

I have an IBM, 7200 RPM SCSI drive here.  ACtually, I have two.  I have 
them connected to an Adaptec 2160 (I think).

First drive is ID 0, second drive is ID 1.  Second drive has term power 
enabled.  The second drive is seeing itself as having ID 8, and is 
throwing errors about ASYNC - Start command failed and such.  IN the 
Adaptec BIOS, it complains about 'No Host Adapter Error' when you try to 
format it (I'm assuming the aformentioned error means 'the error is with 
the drive, not the card')

The second drive *used* to be in a RAID, and I've since moved it into 
another box here in the office for testing and such.  I'm wondering if the 
drive still thinks it is in a RAID or something and needs to be cleared, 
or if the drive is just kaput and I need to call up IBM.  The drive has 
pretty much been doing nothing, and it's only done about a day's worth of 
running since being purchased (I put it in a raid, then delegated it to 
'cold spare'.  

So I dunno.  I think I need to clear it somehow (adaptec folk I've talked 
to on the phone re: RAID cards have had me do that kind of thing, but it 
was probably clearing the 'cards' memory, which made it forget a drive was 
failed, and therefore, turned off the bloody alarm), and I'm loathe to 
talk to IBM for years about the drive... Oh, well.  



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