Gerald,

>I just had the same problem on a quantum I was sure was fried. Then for
>S&Gs I tried to format it with an old CMS SCSI Tool. It worked great! 
>All the other formatters I tried gave me the "drive needs a low level
>format", or "invalid partition map"  I was surprised these utlities
>wouldn't just write a new partition map.  Any way on the quantum web
>site they tell you only the factory can do a low level format, so I
>don't know if the CMS SCSI Tool really did one or not.  WWW.quantum.com
>also has descriptions of those cryptic jumper lables e.g.: (SS = Self
>Seek; EP = Enable parity; etc)

Uh...you wouldn't still have a copy of that CMS SCSI Tools around would 
you?  "Drive needs a low-level format" is exactly what I am getting.  
Silverlining Lite's Info function also informs me that:

Total sectors = 1
Bytes per sector = 512
Cylinders (tracks) = 0
Heads (platters) = 0
Sectors = 0

I have the Quantum diagrams, and a look at the jumpers is tomorrow's 
project.

Regards,

Sean.


T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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