On 02/07/08 03:12 am Ed Durrant wrote:

>> It seems that my 73GB Seagate SCSI drive (still in warranty) is dying, but
>>
>> (a) the BIOS Verify utility says it is fine;
>>
>> (b) dfSee detects multiple write errors on *some* partitions;
>>
>> (c) under eCS some write operations fail on partitions that dfSee finds 
>> to be error free.
>>
>> Why the discrepancy?

> I wouldn't  trust the BIOS Verify utility as much as DFSee or actual 
> operation of the system. You could have the old favorite - a termination 
> error on the SCSI chain or (worse) it could be the controller that's 
> going faulty not the drive.

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.

I suppose it could be that the drive is deteriorating so quickly that 
new problems arise between dfSee giving that partition a clean bill of 
health and my trying to write to it under eCS.

I wish I could run Seagate's own diagnostics on the drive, but their 
SCSI diagnostic tool is available only for Windozzze and Linux. Their 
bootable CD with FreeDOS doesn't detect SCSI drives at all.

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Alan


 
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