Amiga 3000 Hard Drive issue... quantum xp32150

[melott]

>I have feeling you will be saying WD chip version 8... Am I right?

Nope... it should work. I have a Quantum Atlas 9 gig and
also a 6 gig. Both work just fine on my origonal WD chip
in my A3000.
I have found that some drives are kind of fussy when they
were used in another system. I suggest a Low-Level format.

[melott]

@Brian
>not until it got formatted on a PC and put back into the >Amiga. :/

I agree... I've had the same type of thing happen to me.
A known good drive would not work on my Amiga until I
Low-Level formatted on my PC.

I strongly dis-agree with this advice of never Low-Level
formatting a SCSI drive. Its true you should never low-level
and IDE drive.
Anytime I get a new 'USED' drive, the first thing I do is
Low-Level format it. I don't know what system it came from
and whats on it. The ONLY way is to start fresh is with
Low-Level format. It 'WILL NOT' harm the drive.

[melott]

Amiga4k wrote:

As for low-level formats and SCSI vs IDE. As an Amiga owner, re-seller, and trouble-shooter, it has been my experience that SCSI drives should be low-leveled, data-blocks verified, and  then partitioned. After "in-service", low-level formats are only used when a drive becomes hopelessly corrupt and fragmented beyond normal data-block intregrity repairs. (AmiBack or QuarterBack Tools).
I would never low-level an IDE drive.

You said much better than I did  :-)
I really don't know where they get this idea of never
Low-Level formatting a SCSI drive.

[melott]

@Amiga4k

>You can not install an 040 or 060 card w/o a $110-$130 chip >upgrade first. (Buster Ramsey, DMAC).

I can't really agree with this statement......
(Unless I'm mis-understanding your meaning)
I recently bought an A3000/16 for my wife....
I installed the A3640 card with no other chip upgrades.
It runs great.. no problems whatever.

As to the origonal topic of this thread ....
If he has a PC SCSI card and a PC ...I would install
the problem Quantum Atlas drive in the PC and format
it Low Level on the PC using the SCSI tools there.
I have an Adaptec SCSI card in my PC and I've used it
2 or 3 times to format a drive that was giving me
problems using Amiga's HDTools.

[melott]

cbcvenice wrote:

Amiga 3000 reconizes this 2nd drive (atlas) and lets me identify it, but low level format doesnt work...  Maybe the "spin up" jumper shouldn't be on the atlas and "sync" should be on instead?  
I have a suspicion that this Atlas drive is Dead. :-(

It sure was hot to the touch after I tried the format.

Will keep ya posted..

Hmmm... I have a Quntium Atlas 9 gig in my external SCSI
box on my A3k.... it gets warm but not too hot to touch.
If your's is getting that hot then it may well be scrap.
If your Atlas is dead, I would suggest picking up a
Quantum FireBall 3.2 gig 50 pin off EBay, they are
reasonably priced (around $10.00 to $15.00). I have them
in both of my A3000's and think they are best Amiga drive
ever made (BUT that only my opinion :-D  )