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Compaq SCSI 80pin drive won't format

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I have a 9.1gb with a 80pin to 68pin adapter and Adaptec 2940U2 - the drive absolutely will NOT format. I have tried Partition Magic 8, Fdisk, Win2000 and XP install etc.....it see's the drive, it formats, but when it reaches 100% it returns with a cannot format drive error.
I can low-level the drive in the SCSI bios, and the drive is seen everywhere. I believe because the problem is that it is a Compaq server drive - and it is used in a PC. The Compaq drives all have a diagnostic bios partition - but I have already removed all partitions.
Any suggestions? Please help me......:)
 
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what part number do you have on the drive itself?
could also be an adapter problem....cable problem.

Need more info. Kimber

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I have tried 4 PC's, 3 different 2940U2 and one 2930U2 card with all diffent cables. I don't believe it is a hardwar erelated problem - I think it is a matter of removing Compaq's diagnostic partition.

The model is Compaq BD00911934, 9.1 GB 10K Wide Ultra2.

Any suggestions on how to format this drive?
 
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Go here and look up some specs....I will have a look when I have some more time....short of it today sadly.

This is a hot plug drive for a server.

I thought you killed off the diag partition already?

I honestly do not know if you can do what you are trying to do with that hardware. Have never tried it.
I will research it some more later on and post back of you find anything first. Kimber

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I believe that I have removed the diag part, because I removed all the partitions. But I am assuming that since the drive still cannot be formated, something is still misinterpreting the size of the drive; and it must still be hidden?
It is like the drive is read only , and cannot be written to it. As soon as the formatting is 100%, and attempts to write the tables - it refuses and fails.

Terry
 
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Working on it...
I have a bunch of Proliant manuals here from my Compaq authorized repair days...
Will get back to you soon....unless someone has something to add in the meantime.
Kimber

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