In , on 12/03/2005 
   at 09:41 PM, garcher{at}wdn.com said:

Hi Ya George


>>>      It is a Seagate / IBM 73GB SCSI drive.
>>>=20
>>> HBA ID LUN VENDOR   PRODUCT          REV  SYNC WIDE INI13 
CYL/ HD/SEC -=
>--
>>> -- --- -------  ---------------- ---  ---- ---- ----- ------------
>>>  0  13  0  IBM-ESXS SW373405LW    !# B243 40.0  16   82h  1024/255/63
>>>=20
>>>      I have never experienced a drive behaving like this before. It acts
>>> as if it is being accessed every 10 seconds or so.  The LED flashes and
>>> EVERYTHING!!  It even makes that most ANNOYING grinding noise like the
>>> "TCPIP Startup" program does at bootup when it
needlessly grinds the
>>> floppy drives!!  Sheesh.
>>

>Did you do something to change the cyl/hd/sec parameters or is the
>program you used to read the disk params in error? Are you using a SCSI
>controller that is not compatible with this U-160 (32 bit) HD?

     No, just sloppy, careless quality control, typing, proof reading on
my part.

>Because according to "Pocket PC Ref" by Glover and Young , 12th ed. ,
>Sequoia Publ. Co., Littleton, CO, 2002, pp. 430-421, your HD should be:

>  ST373405LW

>(formerly Quantum Atlas III? I think Seagate bought out Quantum's HD
>stock, includng the Atlas III and rebranded it. The drive would not be
>labeled IBM or Hitachi, who took over IBM's HD business.)

>The PC Ref says this HD's params should be:

>68 pin SCSI  73.4GB; 8 heads; 29550 cyl and no data given on translation;

>I have this HD and have not had your noise problem, but I'm using a
>"True-Blue" Adaptec U160 SCSI controller (29160N-bootable; 32 bit PCI
>bus) and even paid the premium to Adaptec for their U160 LVD cables to
>ensure both quality and compatibility (bought the board as a return that
>was missing the cable). You might want to use some diagnostic s/w to
>confirm that the contoller/HW match U160 specs and that you are indeed
>using a LVM data cable with built-in termination.

>George W. Archer

     The problem has been reduced a little by taking the old
drive out of the case.  This new drive was kind of forced in, smashed
right on top of the old drive.

     We will see if I can take a look at it tomorrow.

     Thanks

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