[rescue] SCSI Problem

[Thomas Gallaway]

Solarflares?

No honestly sounds strange. But what happend to me once was that I had 
a bad
SCSI controller. I put it into a dual xeon server. Al of the suddon 
server stops working.
I think. Great. Damn machine gave up on me. Go to the next what was an 
ALR server.
Pop in the SCSI card. Machine dead. I get suspicious. Then I had a old 
P2-400. Pop
the card in there. Machine DEAD.
Turns out the Adaptec card killed 3 of my machines before I knew it was 
it. Maybe this
is the same case with you?


Okay On Nov 22, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Zach Lowry wrote:

> Hello again everyone!
>
> I've been fighting this problem for a couple of weeks now and I 
> haven't been able to figure out what's going on. I have a Quantum 
> Atlas 10kII 73.4gb drive that was in my primary workstation for some 
> time. I had noticed it getting louder and making a whining, but I just 
> assumed that it was showing it's age a little, as I have had a lot of 
> older SCSI drives make similar sounds. Besides, what with school 
> keeping me busy, I didn't really have time to fool with it anyhow.
>
> It turns out that I probably should of made a little time, because it 
> woke me up one morning at about 5:00 with it's abrasive loudness. I 
> walked in the CPU room, saw that it was running an AV scan, and just 
> hit the power button. It went through the shutdown process and shut 
> itself down.
>
> I got up at about 7:00 to turn it back on and see what was up. The 
> drive spun up, seeming louder than I'd ever heard, only to spin back 
> down a few moments later. The SCSI BIOS seemed to detect something at 
> ID 0, but it could never actually register the drive. So, I said that 
> my drive was dead and left it at that. I went downstairs and bought a 
> new, identical, drive.
>
> When I got my new drive and plugged it in, much to my surprise, it did 
> the exact same thing. Spins up to a very high speed, then spins back 
> down. I tried unplugging the SCSI cable, no luck. I changed the SCA 
> adapter, no luck. I used another power cable, no luck. I tried another 
> machine, no luck. I was almost sure that it was the power supply going 
> nuts, but now I don't think that's the case.
>
> Has anyone ever seen something like this happen before? What on Earth 
> could be causing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zach
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