From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 12:13: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB12037B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 581AD3294; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:36:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D0503293; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:36:49 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:36:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Joey Garcia Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with UW SCSI Seagate (Compaq) ST34371W and Tekram 390F SCSI Adapter In-Reply-To: <20001024173615.33533.qmail@web220.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please reply back to -questions... my experience is rather limited in the fact that I've never had problems with SCSI that was not directly related to overheating or my own stupidity with jumper settings... :) > Thanks for the info. I had purchased that SCSI card > pretty much because it was FreeBSD compatible, but I > was hoping that I didn't get a dud. I'm hoping it is > the hardrive that's at fault, but how can I be for > sure? Replace the drive and/or the card with another one if possible, at least long enough to see if the problem sticks around. You'd want to narrow it down of course to the drive or the card. :) > I have the cover off on the machine. The SCSI drive > is on top and is kinda warm to the touch but not > really that hot. I've felt hotter drives before. > > I'm thinking of getting another SCSI drive to see if > that is the problem, but I'd hate to find out it does > the same thing at it being a bad card. > > I can also try updating the BIOS on the card to see if > that solves the problem. But would that reall be at > fault? If another card fixes, then yes. It's possible you do have a bad card. Like I mentioned, I've never had problems with those cards myself. :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org > > I should also mention that 90% of the problems that > > I've ever had > > with SCSI can be directly linked to over heating... > > No matter how well you > > think it may be cooled... it always seems like it's > > not enough. :) (I once > > saw two exactly identical computers sitting side by > > side in a cubby hole > > running the exact same software where which ever one > > was on the right side > > would die. The one on the left side would run > > merrily along. :) > > Granted, I don't know for sure that that is your > > problem, but that > > is where I would start. :) > > > > Rick > > > > > ******************************************************************* > > Rick's FreeBSD Web page > > http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd > > Ace Logan's Hardware Guide > > http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware > > ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! > > http://www.freebsd.org > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. > http://im.yahoo.com/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message