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SCSI drive is stuck?

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I have an Ultrastar 36Z15 (SCA 80-pin) that might be stuck. It spins up just fine, and is recognized by the controller (although for some reason it gives the whole model number, whereas the rest of mine simply say S7Z0). However it instantly fails the Format and Verify commands.

Once it's done spinning up at start, it doesn't make the typical seek noise like my others. It sounds like it tries to a couple of times, but after half a second it just can't do it. I'm thinking of giving it a spin upside-down with a stop, or as i've also heard, to hold it flat upside-down and turn it on its side. Any other ideas?
 
If the drive is failing the format or verfiy commands. There is no reason to play with it anymore. Throw the drive away.

As you stated in this thread.

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=180244

You are collecting parts to build an array. This problem drive is one you don't want in a array. You might piddle around and get it to start working. But do you want to trust any data on it?
 
Philip1952, is that you? :D You should see my threads at TechIMO and Storagereview for deeper reading - there might yet be a chance to recover this drive. I'm not too worried about my data, I do have it safely backed up. In any case I'm looking at an array of 8 to 10 drives (probably RAID 10), so if one or two drives die I stand to benefit from the learning experience of swapping and rebuilding ;)
 
Yea it me. LOL

I haven't been around techimo in a couple of years now. I had some issues there.

About the only time I go around storeage review is to check on drive spec's. :D



so if one or two drives die I stand to benefit from the learning experience of swapping and rebuilding
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I kind of think the other way. When I get done building something. I don't want to work on it all the time. Build it and forget it is my way of thinking. :D

I have three of the IBM 36Z15 series drives. I have never seen one give the full model number in the scsi bios before. I have 2ea 18 gig models and one 36 gig.
 
Yeah, that bit about showing the model number makes me think some odd firmware's been flashed on there.

Let me know if your 36GB drive is ever for sale ;)
 
some odd firmware's been flashed on there.
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Thats what I am thinking also. But I don't think a person can do that. That is factory level as far as I know. Does that drive have any warrenty left on it?

That 36 gig is my storge drive. I use a 18 gig Cheetah for my OS.

The other 2 drives are in my girls computer at college.

You need any 80pin hotswap cage assy's? I have 3ea 2 drive dell setups with cables.
 
I can't tell if there's any warranty left, I enter what I'm pretty sure is the serial no. and it comes up "invalid serial." This is from a sticker on the front end of the drive with eight characters starting with PVY1....Anyway, thanks for the offer on the cages. I'll think about it, but I'll probably go with just one big unit. I'll let you know though.
 
I have seen the invalid serial before on OEM drives that were out of warrenty.
 
Probably is out then. Once I've got the last two drives I'll have twelve in all, and I'll have to sort which are in and out of warranty, which are 68 and 80-pin, and which are known to be or have been bad. These factors will play a large part in deciding which drives go in my array first :D
 
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