Tomb Posted May 1, 2008 Report Posted May 1, 2008 I've got a dead HD...won't spin. It's the 18.2 gig-IBM scsi raid HD for a 2721. Anybody happen to have one for sale? model T318404LW thanks........
Retired Posted May 4, 2008 Report Posted May 4, 2008 It doesn't have to be anything except a 64 pin scsi interface... ANY hard drive will do....The 18 gig is the archive drive... and mine is a 75 gig seagate. Just format, name and drive letter it in disk manager from the computer management screen in the control panel of windows and it will work... I suppose it really doesn't even have to be SCSI. All the software cares about is it's drive letter really.
Tomb Posted May 7, 2008 Author Report Posted May 7, 2008 Thanks retired, I'd try that, but I'm trying to reload the os. The scsi is a raid device and I don't know if that will work with reinstallation. Tom
Retired Posted May 8, 2008 Report Posted May 8, 2008 If you are trying to do it with the recovery disk.... then it needs to be a SCSI device on the IBM SCSI board. But as long as it's at least 18 gig, the recovery disk will care NOT. Lets say you have a 36 gig... once the recovery is done... Then go to Control panels computer management disk management and resize the partition to 36 gig and it will use all the disk and work fine. BTW I do have some disks that will work and have little or NO hours on them. I'll see exactly what I have...
Retired Posted May 8, 2008 Report Posted May 8, 2008 You can also do the recovery as if you don't have the 4th drive. And reinstall the Archive separately.
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