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In-Reply-To: st1dr@rosie.uh.edu (Frankfort, David C.)
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st1dr@rosie.uh.edu (Frankfort, David C.) writes:
>In article <1992Dec15.163515.576@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu>, cxdb14@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (RANDY) writes..>guy who sold it says my software can't handle Quantum drives, and I need to
>>try it on a Mac. I'm starting to think the drive is toast. Any ideas? Kindly
>>reply rather than following up as I want to get it going ASAP.
>>--
>>Randy
>>cxd14@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu
>Try having the drive low level formatted. This generally does the trick also
>check that the ids for seagate and quantum and scsi card are different. Also
>the terminator is at the end of the chain.
It's possible that the drive is toasted, but there's no easy way to
do a low-level format on a Quantum drive. This is, I think, because
Quantum's afraid that you'll change the interleave from 1:1, which is a Bad