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The format failed to complete

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Steve

Lifer
I picked up a couple more IBM Ultrastar 36Z15 SCSI drives but was only able to work with one this weekend. First, it is connected to an LSI 8953U with LSI BIOS 4.19.00. Termination and jumpering are okay, in fact the card detects it, formats it and verifies it without any problems reported. I then boot into Windows, and in diskmgmt.msc I create a partition and format, all at default settings. It formats all the way to 99 or 100 per cent (can't remember which) and then reports an error message, "The format failed to complete." Then Disk Management says the partition is healthy and at full capacity. Why would this be? Should I RMA this drive?
 
The first thing I would do is check the card in DEV Man and make sure it is using LSI drivers - not MS. Then uninstall the SCSI card and reinstall the drivers, and make sure it is working properly in DEV Man.
Even tho you said it, drive must be correctly jumpered as to number (boot drive is usually 0) and last drive terminated.

Then d/l run the IBM HDD test software (full) to look for bad sector.
Make sure boot virus protection stuff is disabled in mobo bios for format
Make sure you are not running AV or network connection during format (or safe mode)
As last resort write zeros to drive (LLF) then try format again
 
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