Help with a SCSI card maybe gone bad.

[buck]

Well, I just got my SCSI card (first one ever) and I had a 9.1 gig(Quantum worked for a week straight no problems) in there and then I ran a defrag and when I came back the computer was off and the back of the drive smelled like something fried! :Q.
I rebooted and after talking to quantum tech support they said I had to get it RMA'd, ok thats cool, it happens.

Then today I get a newer, still used HDD and a cdrw, and a cdrom.
I go to load windows and do a format(worked fine) and then a media check(or whatever that diagnostic is in the scsi bios) and it had a medium error.
I called seagate and got an RMA #.
Do you think its the SCSI card or the drives. I got the drives from trustworthy people used.
But the SCSI cdrom and cdrw work fine right now...
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Matt

 

[julianf]

did you terminate your HD properly? what kind of scsicard is it? frying smell not good....

 

[bacillus]

<< frying smell not good >>


that's a bit of an understatement! :Q

 

[buck]

It was terminated properly, its a adaptec 29160.

 

[buck]

THere wasnt any frying smell on other (seagate) hdd. Also the cdrw and cdrom on the 50 pin works great.
IS it possible that when it fried that it fried something on the card as well? But at the same time not damaget it enough to prevent the 50 from functioning?

 

[julianf]

not if the cdrw and the cdrom works... where any of the disks LVD drives? maybe they didn't like the card trying to transfer 80mb/s or maybe the disks where damaged from the start. to bad scsi drives is so exspensive...

 

[buck]

Yes they were LVD. I had default settings in the scsi bios except I had boot from #4 (cdrom).

 

[buck]

^

 

[buck]

I guess that is about it,,,,.
No more ideas?

 

[Hanpan]

bump hope you find a solution..

this seems really wierd but burnt smells are never good

 

[buck]

I will sure find out when I get the new scsi drive on wednesday.
I plan on taking everything off but the bare essentials.....