[ale] Weird SCSI Drive Compatibility Issue

[Drag0n]

Possibly this drive was formated on another SCSI controller from another
manufacturer. I have seen situations where manufacturers dont play nice
with each other.

Does it report correctly in the scsi bios? and can you run a verify on
the drive?

Drag0n
dragon at atlantacon.org

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 22:51, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I recently picked up an Adaptec AHA-2940UW/B Ultra Wide card and I've
> connected a CD-RW drive and a 4,2GB Seagate ST15230WC Fast Wide drive
> (specs at http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/scsi/st15230wc.html)
> to the card's internal 50-pin connector in preparation for a Gentoo
> install, booting from the aforementioned CD-RW drive.  
> 
> The CD-RW drive appears to work fine and the drive has worked fine
> before connected to the machine's built-in narrow SCSI controller.  I
> believe that I have termination all squared away and I have set the
> AHA-2940UW/B to a max rate of 20MB/s as per the specs of the ST15230WC
> drive.
> 
> The problem I'm having is that after the Gentoo CD boots and lands me at
> a shell prompt, fdisk /dev/sdb (the ST15230WC) shows me a 32MB drive -
> CHS = 31,64,32.  When fdisk starts, it does say "Warning:  Invalid flag
> 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite).
> 
> Is this just a drive/controller mismatch that I just shouldn't have
> attempted?  I've never had a SCSI drive situation go this weirdly
> before.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> 
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