Amiga 3000 Hard Drive issue... quantum xp32150

[Brian]

An obvious thing but you've terminated the drive right?

Also I've been witness to a freaky harddrive that died on me due to software error while writing priority to the harddrive. Was no way the system would boot with the drive installed after that, not even if all partisions where skipped and another harddrive/floppy was used to boot from... not until it got formatted on a PC and put back into the Amiga. :/

[Brian]

In my case I belive the RDB was corrupted and the Amiga hanged trying to make sence of it. I just made a normal format on the drive on the PC, I too say never lowlevel format a SCSI drive as it'll corrupt the drive. IDE drives can handle it but SCSI can't, that's why most tools perform a nromal format when you ask to lowlevel format a SCSI drive.