[SunRescue] drive troubles

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

I'm not certain, but I believe you *don't* want the 'start on 
command enable' to be jumpered. That particular one means that you 
don't want the drive to spin up unless the controller sends a 
'start' command.

At 08:26 PM 6/29/00, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>Hola!  I've got a Toshiba MK537FB that I picked up when we retired 
>one of
>our servers.  It's a fairly nice 1GB SCSI drive, which seems to 
>have one
>small problem.  I was running it attached to my PeeCee for a 
>while, and it
>ran just about without a hitch, although sometimes I would have to 
>turn on
>my external chassis two or three times before that drive would 
>spin up.  Now
>I have inside of my SS2, and I can't get it to do a bloody 
>thing.  The drive
>will not spin up under normal conditions, unless the "test" jumper 
>is
>enabled.  I got a copy of the manual for a similar drive but it 
>doesn't have
>any suggestions on what might be causing this.  The relevant 
>jumpers that
>are enabled are "Unit Attention enable" and "start on command 
>enable".
>Anybody got any ideas on what to try?  Thanks,
>         Grego
>
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