"Don{ald} O. Woodall" posted:


>>=20
>>      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?

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







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