Re: Seagate Baraccuda drives and Adapetc AHA1460 controller prob.

1998-02-23 Thread Bill Leach
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll try disabling both of these & see how things go. Are either of > these likely to cause intermittent access problems? Given that > running badblocks doesn't produce any kernel error messages, it > occurs to me that this could be a disconnect/reconne

Re: Seagate Baraccuda drives and Adapetc AHA1460 controller prob.

1998-02-23 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Bill" == Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> I am 'just clutching at straws here' but in the past there Bill> have been some drives that 'lie' to the SCSI bus about their Bill> capability during the scsi inquire. Some of these things Bill> typically 'hang' the scsi

Re: Seagate Baraccuda drives and Adapetc AHA1460 controller prob.

1998-02-22 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Bill" == Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thanks for the suggestions... Bill> Stephen, has cfdisk complained after the first time you set Bill> up the drive (the first time would have been ok since there Bill> was not a DOS/PC sort of partition table on the drive)? That'

Re: Seagate Baraccuda drives and Adapetc AHA1460 controller prob.

1998-02-22 Thread Bill Leach
Stephen, has cfdisk complained after the first time you set up the drive (the first time would have been ok since there was not a DOS/PC sort of partition table on the drive)? I am 'just clutching at straws here' but in the past there have been some drives that 'lie' to the SCSI bus about their ca

Seagate Baraccuda drives and Adapetc AHA1460 controller prob.

1998-02-22 Thread Stephen Zander
Please reply direct as I'm not subscribed to debian-user... Does anyone have any experience with the Adaptec 1460 SlimScSI PCMCIA card? I have a Seagate Baracuda (rebadged as SUN Microsystems) drive I'm trying to use with my laptop through this card. The card recognises the drive, spins it up,