I'm putting togather a PC.
Its a Pent. 350, using a bunch of stuff I have.
I'm using a Adaptec 1510/1520 SCSI card.
And yes I know its old, but its what I have.
The card is good because I was able to
reconize and format a Seagate 1 gig drive.
I also have a IBM 4.2 gig drive that I was/am
going to use.
The question is does this card have a 4 gig
limit or something like that?? Also I heard
that on some PC's the hard drive can be password
protected. I bought this drive used and have no
idea what it came out of.
The problem is that the system sees
the drive and hardware config says the drive is
working correctly. But when I try to low-level
format it I get an error from Adaptec's SCSIFMT
formatting software.
The errors are.....
CDB 04 ......
Target 02- Check Command
all the other areas are zeros so I assume they
are OK.
I've had this drive for some time and was never
able to get it to format on my A3k ether.
I'm just not convinced that this drive is bad.
As I said, I formatted a Seagate 1 gig with it so
the problem is with the IBM drive.
Has anyone had any experience with this kind
of thing ??
