[rescue] Seagate firmware

George Adkins george at webbastard.org
Wed Apr 3 19:26:04 CST 2002


> As always, there's a catch.  A few days ago, we heard from the group
> that received this lot of hardware that none of their disks functioned
> outside of the array -- after poking around they learned that Compaq
> likely wiped the firmware on the disks and replaced it with firmware
> to work in the RAID arrays.  After poking around, we seemed to verify
> their conclusion.  The disks power up, will respond to a SCSI probe,
> but will otherwise not respond to any other SCSI commands.
>
Check the drives jumper settings carefully, I have encountered this before, 
and the solution was to remove the SDTR jumper from the jumper block on the 
bottom of the drives.

George



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