[TriLUG] OT: Dell 2650 SCSI error: Start Unit Request Failed

[Ron Kelley]

Probably a bad drive.  If you are close to Apex/Cary, I can loan you one of my older SCSI-3 drives to check it out.

Thanks,

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Ron Kelley
rkelleyrtp at gmail.com

On Jan 16, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Brian wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> Thanks to a fellow TriLUGger (John Turner)'s recent generosity, I now have a Dell 2650 server, which has a 1x5 SCSI-3 hot-swap drive bay configuration.
> 
> I bought a brand-new Hitachi 36GB 15krpm U320 drive for the machine. After installing it, on bootup the SCSI BIOS reports the "Start Unit Request Failed" error.
> 
> All I've read so far suggests that this means the drive is bad.  That seems unlikely since it's a brand-new drive.  I've tried it in each of the five bays, with identical results.  Unfortunately I don't have any other SCSI hosts I could use to test the drive.
> 
> I can hear the drive spin up, so there's that...
> 
> Does anyone have some experience with this error?  Is it a case of incompatible SCSI standards?
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Brian
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