Thus spake Peter Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:49:11PM +0200, Mustafa N. Deeb wrote:
> > well I think I've eliminated most of these things, I've the disks out of the
> > server and made the cooler point the air to it..
> > and It does not look like bad cables...
> > about the BAD hd, I've the problem on 5/5 new drives that I bought..
> > I'll try upgrading the firmeware and BIOS..
> > and see..
>
> Where I work we have the same problem we were not however able to get rid
> of this problem by elimination ie. we replaced scsi cable, scsi adapter
> and like you we replaced the drive (same specs same seagate) twice with the
> same results. We also added a fan for the drive noticing it became quite hot
> with no improvement.
Likewise here. We also changed power supply, to no avail.
I had this problem with a 2940UW Pro, with Seagate disks - ST318436LW, and
ST318275LW. These are 18Gb Baracuda (7200rpm) units.
It was suggested I disable write caching, and this seems to have been the
problem.
Nick.
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