First question: can you used any hard drive in this computer successfully? If not, you may have a computer hardware problem. But assuming it's just this drive...
> 1. Received an Seagate ST32151N from a Supplier that hade already > pre-formatted. Technically, all drives a pre-formatted at the factory. Formatting programs don't actually format SCSI or ATA drives, the drive firmware does that. What they do is initialise the partitions and in the case of Macs install a driver that understands their partitioning scheme. Anyway, this is already a bad sign. Don't buy pre-formatted Mac hard drives, because there are formatting programs out there that can force even terminally sick drives to pass quite a lot of testing. Why they have this feature, I don't know: any SCSI drive that shows any uncorrectable hard errors, or otherwise fails to perform, is is almost certainly going to fail for good in the not-too-distant future. I won't say the vendor was trying to scam you, because they may well not understand this point. When I went through this they said "these are used drives, you can't expect them to be perfect"... no, sorry, disk drives don't work that way... either the firmware can hide any errors, or it's terminal. Get them to replace the drive, and reformat it when it gets in to make sure it's not a bad drive with the uncorrectable defects hidden. Incidentally, the drives I had the problems with were also Seagate Hawks. I wonder if it was the same vendor. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
