In , on 12/02/2005 
   at 11:10 AM, Ed Durrant  said:

>Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
>> Hello Scuzzy Hard Drivers
>> 
>>      Well, I did it to myself, again.  Bought a used hard
>> drive.  While it is working, it is vigorously convincing
>> me to by another drive to replace it.
>> 
>>      It is a Seagate / IBM 73GB SCSI drive.
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>>      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.
>> 
>>      Any ideas or advise?

>Have you checked the SCSI card and drive are correctly terminated ??

>Ed.

     I don't think termination is an issue here.

       1.  I was not having any problems before I replaced
           a 1.6 inch high drive.

       2.  Neither this drive nor the one I replaced were
           at the end of the chain.

     Thanks

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