neese@adaptx1.UUCP (03/28/91)
>/* ---------- "Strange problems with Priam 738 & A" ---------- */ > >I'm having some problems with my Priam 738 disk and Adaptec 1542B >controller. The operating systems I use are pc-dos 3.3 and Esix 5.3.2 >d. The problem is that my hard disk seems to reset itself every now >and then. It goes off for under a second, after that it goes on again, >resets itself (same kind of sound is heard on the scsi bus reset) and >starts to work. This might happen as often as five times within ten >minutes, but sometimes it takes two days to occur even once. Under >ms-dos this is difficult because dos reports not ready error after one >"stop" and has to be booted again. Esix doesn't seem to care too much >for these stops if it's not writing something to disc while it's >happening. > >Both the disk and controller are only few months old, and this thing >started to happen this month. > >What I'd like to know is where I should start to look the fault, be it >the disk, the controller, scsi cable or the computer power that is >making these errors? Or could my disk controllers parameters be wrong >(this I doubt because the system worked a few months without any >error)? Well, I can't vouch for the Priam drive, but the 1542 will not issue a SCSI bus reset unless told to do so. The only time the SCSI bus is reset by the 1542 is at power up. You might check your termination out. If the drive is not properly terminated this type of thing might occur. Roy Neese Adaptec Senior SCSI Applications Engineer UUCP @ neese@adaptex uunet!cs.utexas.edu!utacfd!merch!adaptex!neese