It says the interface is SCSI but its definately an IDE Drive.
This is normal behavior for an A1200. It detects all drives as SCSI, because it uses "scsi.device" as it's ROM-based IDE interface driver. Don't ask me why. I don't know. It's quite confusing, but it IS the proper behavior for an A1200.
I'm starting to think the drive is faulty but it verifies no bad sectors.
I don't know if the "verify" and "low level format" commands actually do anything, at all. They light the activity light for a while, but I've seen drives pass the "verify" test, while they were making obvious, hideous, IBM "DeathStar" style grinding noises.
And, as for the "low-level format" command not doing anything discernable, that's probably a good thing, as if you ACTUALLY low-level formatted the drive, that would probably destroy it. Most modern drives aren't meant to be low-level formatted.
As for the wrong drive geometry showing, and the "error -3 on write", it sounds like the Amiga is having a tough time handling the drive. Perhaps it's not totally compatible, or has a scrambled RDB already written to it, which the Amiga is trying to interpret?
