Dead Lvd?

[kilroy]

Howdy everybody.
I am hoping that somebody here may be able to help with my Problem.

I have a Quantum Atlas 9.6 gig LVD drive.
Controller Tekram something or other.

I was having some problems with the hard drive that spanned a few months and data that was supposed to be writing was not, the OS (windows 98) was saying that data had been saved, but the next time I look data is gone......
ect.
I decided that probably the best thing to do would be to do a Low Level Format (this was suggested to me by several folks that use SCSI on a daily basis.

I entered the controller bios, and told it to LLF the quantum.
it never finished the format, I know not what happened, but the drive did not report a complete format.

Now the card sees the drive for what it is,
but the drive never sends a start command (I think that is the error) and i can never get the OS back on.

I contacted the Place that I bought it from, and they never told me that the drive was OEM when I bought it, (and Quantum wont replace it for me either)

So I turn to you - Can you help, or do I have a very expensive paperweight?

Thank you

Andrew - AKA: Kilroy

[Ricardo]

First of all, welcome to Sysopt forum, here you will find help always!
About your problem, seems to me that you have a really expensive paperweight, but do not loose the hope. Try to conatct the technical dept. of Quantum and see if they have some software to re-format your HD. I don't use SCSI drives, but a friend of mine had a problem very similar to your(but was an IBM drive)and some e-mail exchanged with the factory and voila, one special software to recover the partition and reformat the drive.
Try it, do not loose your hope and maybe some Sysopt member give you the solution.

Good luck http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[kilroy]

WOW!
that was quick
Thanks for posting and thanks for the welcome.
I have been trying to contact Quantum for some time. maybe i an trying the wrong number or email, but not getting a response

[Ricardo]

Try by e-mail, for my friend works great, at least with IBM.

Best regards and good luck http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif