[Coco] B&B HD Setup

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>On Tue, 5 May 2009, tonym wrote:
>> I finally aborted it at the 36-hour mark.
>>
>> Surely there is something wrong at that point....
>
>Tony,
>
>Was the drive actually doing something all that time, or was the system
>frozen?  This was the verify phase of format, correct?  You should have
>been seeing hex block addresses scrolling by constantly.
>
>If not, perhaps you were bitten by the same problem I was.  Unless you set
>a flag (forget what it's called), the terminal pauses at the end of a page
>and waits... forever.

tmode .1 -pause
effective only for that window.  But Tony said it was clicking, in which case 
he should have seen the sector numbers marching by on that same screen.

>I was yanking hair out of my head over this while setting up a Seagate
>disk on my B&B controller.  It would chug along for a while and just stop.
>However, the light on the drive went out and it was clear nothing was
>happening.  So, might be a red-herring.
>
>Steve


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