Re: My version of computer woes

[Herb Chong]

i've been using a 750W supply myself. 8 hard drives and 3 CD drives in the 
case, 5G of RAM, and dual Xeon processors use a lot. i have an Intel SATA 
controller myself. SCSI is nice, but price/performance isn't worth it so far 
when i can use ordinary SATA drives. i run it as a RAID 5 system and that 
cuts the performance some anyway. the only SCSI peripherals i have left are 
2 CD-ROM drives. unlike the ones made today, i expect these to last another 
4-5 years at least. i think that on each of my systems, i have replaced an 
IDE CD-ROM drive about once a year.

Herb....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 7:58 AM
Subject: RE: My version of computer woes


Hi Herb,
first thing I did was check all connections and replace
the power supply (wanted to go to a 450 watt anyway).
Second was to replace the SCSI cable and terminator.
It kept alternating the error between 2 different drives.
I finally replaced the RAID controller itself and no more
problems.
Of course this required a Ghost to an IDE, array rebuild
and Ghost back again. Giant PITA but it's fixed now. ;-(