--- In os2hardware{at}yahoogroups.com, "Jon Harrison"
 wrote:
>
> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:02:44 -0500, Alan Beagley wrote:
> 
> >
> >Bur this is only one drive of the four on the same chain, so I don't 
> >think it's a controller or termination problem.
> 
> Alan:
> 
> I have just suffered through a somewhat similiar problem.  I had
> one drive in a chain of 3 acting up.  I changed the HA, didn't fix
> it.  I changed ID's, I moved drives around.  None of that worked. 
> My drives are all 35GB.
> 
> Changing the LVD cable/terminator finally may have fixed it, I
> haven't had a problem now in about 2 weeks.  I'd have to go another
> 2 weeks before I can say for certain.  I don't see how the
> cable/terminator could go bad.  It was $70, ouch.  For the record,
> I also changed out the motherboard, for a different reason.
> 
> Kris:
> 
> Interesting comment about eCS version of chkdsk.  I am running v1.2
> but at one point I had booted to eCS 2 Beta and run a chkdsk.  I
> just checked and the version of chkdsk.com on the v2 beta 3 & eCS
> v1.2 is the same.  So why would it matter?


I am coming to the conclusion that the motherboard has a problem. I've
tried three different SCSI cards in two different PCI slots and with
two different cables and terminators. Sometimes I cannot get into the
BIOS of any of the SCSI cards; sometimes the SCSI card "signs on" but
then can't find any devices; sometimes I get strange error messages or
just plain garbage from the SCSI adapter (e.g., "PMM failed deallocate
function" or "configuration invalid" or a display consisting mostly of
question marks from the Adaptec card, or some graphics characters from
either of the LSILogic cards). Sometimes I cannot get into the mobo
BIOS. Sometimes it will not boot from a CD.

I booted it from a volume on the SATA drive, but I can't get much done
before it all freezes. The last couple of times I tried to restart eCS
I got a Trap 0008 just before the Desktop should have displayed (I'm 
writing this now on a Windozzze machine.) I've tried reinstalling
eCS2.0RC4, but the machine freezes before it gets very far --
sometimes even before I've finished selecting options.

I hooked the SCSI drives to the U2W connector on an old Asus P2B-LS
and was able to get everything off them.

I know some people do not like Asus motherboards, but this is the
first one in more than 15 years that I've had reason to suspect of
having a problem. I wonder how tedious their RMA process is.

-=-
Alan




 
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