Hello All, I recently had a defective IBM SCSI drive replaced, and I have been having some wierd problems with the replacement drive. When I first put the replacement into my system, my SCSI BIOS complained that the reported geometry of 1020/141/62 (C/H/S) was incorrect and that a head/sector paramter of 255/63 was expected. It told me that any OS other than DOS would have a problem with the drive. I installed Debian anyway and, after configuring LILO around the problem, ended up with a bootable system. My problem was that I still got an annoying error message from my SCSI BIOS when I boot my machine. I did a low-level format of the drive and all of a sudden it was reporting the correct drive geometry of 555/255/63, which is the same geometry that my original drive always reported. After the low-level format, I installed Debian again, and when I rebooted for the first time after the system installation, I got the error message again. Is the replacement drive damaged or is their some kind of SCSI LBA-mode type of addressing that I need to set somewhere? SCSI Devices are not my specialty :)
Some Useful Info: SCSI Controller: Tekram DC-390F SCSI Drive: IBM Ultrastar 9ES 4.5GB LVD, ID 6, LUN 0 Any ideas? Thanks for any help you SCSI Masters can provide. Regards, Steve Beitzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
