You might want to reseat the card as well. Jon
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:55 AM, David > Elebute<[email protected]> wrote: > > Any help in getting this resoled would be greatly appreciated. > > Various standard-issue SCSI suggestions: > > Try limiting the SCSI transfer rate for both drives. You can do > that in the Adaptec firmware utility. Start by just picking the > slowest setting that isn't ASYNC and see if it works then. > > Check to make sure termination is proper. Both ends of the SCSI > chain and nothing in-between. Check all the drives and the controller > for this. Weird things can happen when termination is improper -- > including everything appearing to work fine for years. If you can, > try an external terminator. > > If you have one, try a different SCSI cable. > > See if either drive is jumpered to generate SCSI parity. If they > are different, make them the same. Try both ways -- generate parity, > and do not generate parity. > > See if either drive is jumpered to generate termination power. Try > disabling term power on all drives. Try enabling term power on just > the drive closest to the end of the chain. > > See if either drive is jumpered with a different block size, or a > capacity-limiting jumper, or any of those other weird compatibility > hacks drive manufactures put in. > > Try different SCSI IDs for both drives. Try with both drives > together this way, and one at a time. See if there's a pattern to the > failures there. > > If you put each drive in the system one at a time, and boot from CD, > does the CD OS see the drive properly? > > > still get medium errors to the original drive that i know is good! > > Are you sure it's good, or do you just believe it is good because it > doesn't fail to boot in some circumstances? You may want to try > running a media verify (from the Adaptec firmware utility). > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
