On Thursday 02 September 2004 11:02 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> On Monday 30 August 2004 01:06 am, Robert Ambrose wrote:
> > I see two choices:
> >
> > 1. Move swap to the IDE.
> > 2. Continue to diagnose the problem.
>
> I continued to diagnose by taking theswap drive out of the equation.
> I still get the same error. That means it isn't the swap drive?
Just disabling swap does not take the swap drive out of the picture. You need
to unplug the drive from your system. If the errors then go away, you know
it was the something in the SCSI system that was causing the error. But, you
still won't know for sure what was the culprit since disconnecting the drive
will stop the SCSI host adapter from communicating with the drive. The SCSI
host could still be the problem.
If disconnecting the drive makes the problem go away, you must either try the
drive in a different system or reconnect it with a different cable (the cable
could be bad, causing a parity error) or try a different SCSI host adapter.
As you change different things, remember (write down) what was connected and
if the errors were present or not.
The three most likely sources of the error are the drive, SCSI cable and the
SCSI host adaptor. You must switch these parts out one at a time until the
problem goes away to prove what is causing the issue. This is hard for a
home user usually because you may not have other pieces with which to swap
and test. Thus, the value of a computer service shop!
Alan
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