- Jan 11, 2001
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Ok, I'm pretty much an SCSI n00b. I know the end of the cable or last device needs terminated but other than that, I know zero details or specs. That aside, I have the following question:
I have a 5 drive SCA backplane and five IBM DNES-318350 18.2GB SCA SCSI Drives connected to said backplane. I went through and formatted every one via the SCSI Controller BIOS but the last drive took well over 1.5 hours formatting and never completed. All of the other drives on connectors 1-4 took on average 26 minutes. After rebooting and trying again It once again didn't finish after about an hour. Upon suggestion from another user, I changed the #5 drive to the #3 connector and removed all the other drives. Viola!, format complete in 36 minutes fine. Am I to assume #5 connector is bad or is the #5 drive possibly dying? I don't really want to plug another drive into the #5 connector and try it for fear that if the #5 connector is flaky, I'd prefer not to mess up another drive.
I have a 5 drive SCA backplane and five IBM DNES-318350 18.2GB SCA SCSI Drives connected to said backplane. I went through and formatted every one via the SCSI Controller BIOS but the last drive took well over 1.5 hours formatting and never completed. All of the other drives on connectors 1-4 took on average 26 minutes. After rebooting and trying again It once again didn't finish after about an hour. Upon suggestion from another user, I changed the #5 drive to the #3 connector and removed all the other drives. Viola!, format complete in 36 minutes fine. Am I to assume #5 connector is bad or is the #5 drive possibly dying? I don't really want to plug another drive into the #5 connector and try it for fear that if the #5 connector is flaky, I'd prefer not to mess up another drive.