nasty scsi issues need advice

[iconian]

hi all 🙂

i have some wierd scsi issues perhaps someone here can help me

all started about a month ago..
i installed the lsi logic 20320 card + drivers just fine
then attached scsi hd(its terminated at the end(connected to closest connector t terminator) scsi id: 0

i boot into windows card bios/windows all see the drive just fine i format it as usual and it works perfect
Then approx 2 weeks after in early june i was watching some videos i grabbed off apple's site, the player
hanged(stopped playing picture) and hd started makin wierd noise(as if its writing data very hard)

i stopped the movie and tried to restart no dice i gotten some i/o errors. I tried to run other programs from the hd
and gotten either i/o errors or inpage errors if i tried to copy off the hd to diff hd

i sorta panicked and someone suggested i reformat it , so i did, ad drive went back to working FINE

3 days ago i was in ms word when i was loading ftp client to upload html files and it errored wierdly(bunch of non english characters)
and hd started making same noise. SAME thing happened

this time i decided to low level format it/verify (from scsi bios) and it did fine and didnt find any bad sectors

my question is: what can be the problem?? am pretty sure that its probably the scsi card but i want to do some checking before anything

my hw is: mobo is: asus a7n8x deluxe(nvidia chipset)
scsi card is lsi logic 20320
hd is: fujitsu map3147np
running win2k sp3
am pretty sure that wiring all goo since i tripple checked everything and most wierd is that it happens at random times of the day, not on reboot or whatever

i be checkin this very often with hope that someone has some insight

thanx

 

[sharkeeper]

Anything in the event viewer system log pointing the name of your SCSI drivers?

Cabling is extremely important at U160 speeds and above! 95% of these complaints are cabling/termination/backplane (where applicable) related.

Are you running your PCI bus beyond specification? (aka overclocking)

The hard disks should be grounded via the system chassis and mounted tightly.

How warm is the HDD?

-DAK-

 

[Sideswipe001]

Does your SCSI card have the latest BIOS and drivers?

 

[iconian]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
Anything in the event viewer system log pointing the name of your SCSI drivers?

Cabling is extremely important at U160 speeds and above! 95% of these complaints are cabling/termination/backplane (where applicable) related.

Are you running your PCI bus beyond specification? (aka overclocking)

The hard disks should be grounded via the system chassis and mounted tightly.

How warm is the HDD?

-DAK-

hi am using a adaptec scsi cable the good1 hehe, and its terminated fine i believe, thing is it happened twice after like 2 weeks..

its not overclocked (any of parts)

its screwed down very tightly on 4 screw's

system is very cool

cpu running at 36 and case at 26 the hd very slightly warm

Originally posted by: Sideswipe001
Does your SCSI card have the latest BIOS and drivers?

it dosnt have latest 1, i tried to upgrade yesterday but i go wierd problem , upgrade utility asks for .bin file but i only got .rom in the package i got from thier www wierd crap

 

[sharkeeper]

Try swapping the cable for another. That failing, your disk may need to be RMA'd.

-DAK-

 

[iconian]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
Try swapping the cable for another. That failing, your disk may need to be RMA'd.

-DAK-

i tried 2 diff other cables but they work fine same as this 1 i mean no performance loss or anything just that thing every2 weeks
when i fomatd the hd and verified it, it didnt find any bad sectors...

 

[iconian]

i did some checking and few friends of mine think that it maybe hd thats bad

hd has bad sectors which are removed when formated and over time it develops them gain hence the crash

any ideas?