[SunRescue] Stubborn Seagate 9.1gb Barracuda -- won't format. Help!

[Stefan Hames]

>
>If it's vibrating, it sounds likely to be a bad drive.
>Do you know what the ID is set to?
>
>Make sure it's not on ID 7.

Hmmm. I thought that Sun SCA drives got their ID from the backplane 
on SparcStation 5s.   As far as I remember there are no jumpers 
installed . I'm not at my office; I'll check when I go in.  However, 
it seems have an id of 3 set, which is as it should be for the first 
drive on the backplane, I think.

>Sounds like it's not initializing correctly, thus it's reporting it's not
>ready.

I tried  both the < touch /reconfigure> before rebooting  and <boot 
-r>. The system seems to recognize that the drive is there, but it 
won't format.  I followed the instructions in the Solaris 2.6 
SysAdmin guide  -- what else is necessary?


>Any other unusual noises it makes?

It's fairly quiet until it spins up early in the boot process, then 
it gets quiet again and then finally spins up to true room-shaking 
speed. I don't get any of the more exotic noises described on the 
list.

Should I give up and contact the seller?

Thanks,

Stefan

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