MB> I would be interested to know what problems you had with the SCSI drive.  
What
  > was the brand and model?  Some of the Seagates need to be configured to 
run
  > under NetWare, and Seagate makes a utility available to do this.  The 
ain
  > thing is that the write cache must be disabled, so that media errors in 
the
  > course of writing are reflected back to NetWare immediately so it can 
apply its
  > "hotfix" logic.  In fact, any operating system which does hotfix should 
have
  > this change made, including OS/2 (if using HPFS), NT (if using NTFS), and 
Unix
  > (in all cases).
   Jeez....you learn something every day in this echo!!
   I have never heard of this...
MB> Another problem with Seagates is that they are shipped by default with
  > automatic write reallocation mapping disabled.  I can think of no 
justification
  > for this, but it is quite hard to enable unless you really know what you 
are
  > doing and have the necessary tools.  I use Linux and the scsiinfo utility 
to
  > manipulate internal drive mode pages, but this is not for the squeamish 
r
  > inexperienced -- you can easily slip up and make the drive totally
  > inaccessible, especially since you have to modify the drive's NVRAM.
   I wonder if this is the source of the drive corruption problems 
   I'm seeing on my Seagate Hawk 2 gigers running under Warp Server?
   Where can I get more info on this?
                                               LRA
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