I RMA'd an IBM Ultrastar 36Z15 recently, and in return got a Hitachi Ultrastar. As I always do with any SCSI drives I get, I connected this one up and started the system.
The first thing I noticed was that it spun up as soon as I powered on its enclosure, normally the drives don't spin up until the computer they're connected to is turned on. I checked all my connections and they seemed to be fine, so I proceeded into my card's BIOS (an LSI 8953U with LSI BIOS 4.19.00) and did a Format.
The format completed without a problem, so then I went to Verify. It got as far as 8%, then announced that Block 00000000 failed to verify, and did I want to reassign? I said Yes to all, and then got the message Reassign Failed:
Sense Key = 06, ASC = 29, ASCQ = 01
I proceeded into Windows and with Disk Manager made a partition and formatted it. During this format it sounded as if it was stopping and spinning up again several times, but once it was done it produced a typical steady hum. Still wouldn't verify though.
So first of all, is this drive bad enough to warrant an RMA? And second, can I use this drive in an array filled with older Ultrastar 36Z15s, or am I better off with identical drives all around?
Old drive's model number: IC35L036UCPR15-0
New drive's model number: HUS151436VL3800
They're both the same capacity (36.7GB, comes to 35001MB or 34.18GB in Windows) and same spindle speed (15,000rpm) but I haven't compared other specs.
The first thing I noticed was that it spun up as soon as I powered on its enclosure, normally the drives don't spin up until the computer they're connected to is turned on. I checked all my connections and they seemed to be fine, so I proceeded into my card's BIOS (an LSI 8953U with LSI BIOS 4.19.00) and did a Format.
The format completed without a problem, so then I went to Verify. It got as far as 8%, then announced that Block 00000000 failed to verify, and did I want to reassign? I said Yes to all, and then got the message Reassign Failed:
Sense Key = 06, ASC = 29, ASCQ = 01
I proceeded into Windows and with Disk Manager made a partition and formatted it. During this format it sounded as if it was stopping and spinning up again several times, but once it was done it produced a typical steady hum. Still wouldn't verify though.
So first of all, is this drive bad enough to warrant an RMA? And second, can I use this drive in an array filled with older Ultrastar 36Z15s, or am I better off with identical drives all around?
Old drive's model number: IC35L036UCPR15-0
New drive's model number: HUS151436VL3800
They're both the same capacity (36.7GB, comes to 35001MB or 34.18GB in Windows) and same spindle speed (15,000rpm) but I haven't compared other specs.
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