On Jun 9, 21:02, Curt Sampson wrote:
> 
> the system stalls for about 30 seconds, with the NCR's light off
> but the Hawk's light on, and then prints
> 
> Any thoughts? Is this likely to be a bad drive, or just screwyness
> in the NCR device driver?

Maybe your drive uses a different sector size than your driver.
Did you try a low-level formatting with 512 bytes per sector?

- Johan