A while ago I was given 2 SCSI 1 gig hard drives. The problem with the
drives is that the machine will not recognize them. The Adaptec card sees
them for a second, and then throughs them out because of "invalid sector
size" or something to that affect. I could not find ANYTHING in DOS, Win95,
or OS/2 that would recogize the drive after boot up (and I have ALOT of
diag utils for all OS's). The only thing that recognized it was the linux
kernel. It gave a message on bootup, during the scdi device check, that it
detected the drives, but then it threw them out saying that they were using
a sector size of 520 bytes instead of the 512 it should be using. I have no
idea what happened to the drives (Remember, I have 2, both have the same
problem). I called up Hewlet Packard (makers of the drive), and they said
the model that I had was an OEM drive, and that they weren't supporting it
(bastards), and sent me on my merry way. My question is; is there a way I
can change the sector size, or get SOME OS to even recogzize it? Is there
anything I can do, or is it just a paperweight now? Thanks for any help
anyone can give me.
Robert Sheehy
rsheehy@ac4.jjc.cc.il.us
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