Alan Beagley ha scritto:
>
>
> Leaving aside the fact that everything was running fine for 18 months or
> so on this controller, here's a brief excerpt from the spec.:
>
I got the problems you are describing so every now and then too. Got 
away with it, as I described earlier, by detaching all other drives and 
then performing a chkdsk from the right bootable eCS install CD.
>
>
> I did manage to find a Knoppix boot CD and ran the Seagate Linux
> diagnostics. A "long" drive Self-Test said all was OK -- so Seagate
> isn't going to want to replace the drive anyway.
>
So you better face the facts: your disk is all right and in excellent 
state. The problem you have is imho solely due to the aic29160.add not 
coping anymore with today's hardware. Keep in mind, this is a year 2000 
thus 8 years old driver, from the era a 36 Giga scsi disk was the 
ultimate max. And as a matter of fact imcompatible with acpi.
>
> I have moved the problem drive from ID1 to ID4 in case there was a
> problem with the address lines, but dfSee still finds numerous errors,
> and attempting to unzip a file to a partition on the drive hung the 
> system.
>
No, you should detach all drives and perform as decribed above.
>
> I've been looking out for an Adaptec U320 adapter on eBay, but so far I
> haven't found the right one at the right price.
>
You do realize these cards don't have a slot for your 50 pins devices, 
don't you? Meaning you would be forced to look  for adapters 50-->68, 
and having your LVD disks and CD drive on the very same chain. A little 
recepee for disastre. I had done so in the past, and it turned out to be 
unworkable (from eCS pont of view of course).
>
> I might try the drive in a different machine and see what results I get.
>

To be absolutely sure, you should perform the same as above for each 
disks, in order to be absolutely sure the MBR will be cleaned. Yes, I 
ran DSsee in the past in the same matter as you did, and it could not do 
the job, in the same matter as at your system.  IMHO Jan doesn't have 
scsi stuff at his disposal, so he can't tell much about scsi anyway, can he?



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Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris




 
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