On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:33:09AM -0400, Keith Wright wrote:
That looks a lot like the messages I got from a drive that was about to die. In my case, timeouts got more and more frequent, then the drive started making rattling-grinding sounds
Hm... now that you mention it... grinding...
Save your files!
No problem, I'm just using it to cache a bunch of MP3 CD's, so I don't have to swap discs, so I can let it burn.
and a 4GB Western Digital Enterprise that someone told me was dead. Heh... okay that sounds pretty bad.
Reports of its death may have been premature, but don't count on a long reprieve. After it is backed up you can play with terminators and configurations.
I figure the level of failure it's reached so far is enough to confound a Windows machine. (I don't know, does Windows throw around SCSI bus resets when things go awry?) But I'll have to dig up my bucket o' SCSI crap and see if I can't try out a few terminators, or look up the drive on the web site and see if it's got any termination jumpers or whatnot. Thanks. -Chuck