Hard Drive Problems

[cs1tc]

I have:
IBM Ultrastar 36LZX U160 (80pin)
80-68 pin convertor
LVD cable
Adaptec 19160 SCSI Card
ASUS A7V266 Mobo

I'm now gettign an error message at the POST reading:
"WARNING: DRIVE ON 19160 A at slot 03, 00:0E:00, SCSI ID: 0 has exceeded Failure Prediction Threshold!
Please make a backup as soon as possible. Press any key to continue"

also, from time to time the drive will report on screen at the SCSI bios as syncing at 40MBps instead of it's usual 160.

Only a week before hand I checked the drive thourougly with the "Drive Fitness Test Software" from IBMs own website and everything came up all clear.

Thinking the problem could be lying in the actual interfce card itself I tested it with a Mirai 40x16x10x SCSI CDRW to make sure it was functioning correctly. The CDRW drive works perfectly but the Hard Disk continued to be problematic.

Now the system is constantly crashing, or to put it better...restarting before I can even load up Windows.

I have also tried installing other operating systems, namely Windows ME and 2000 to test the drives stability, and more often than not it fails to complete the setup for 2000 and always for ME.

The computer, when the Hard Drive is plugged in, also now report in the bios harware monitor that it is consuming an awful lot of the power supplied by the PSU...a warning now appears at the POST indicating this. I know that the PSU is 300W and AMD approved.

I'm really out of ideas with how to test/fix this problem and it total sucks !

Anybody spare a hint? Cheers

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AMD Athlon 1.4GHz
ASUS A7V266
256MB Crucial PC2100
Hercules Prophet 4500
Fujitsu x174
Creative SB Live 5.1
Cambrige Works DTT2200
IBM Ultrastar 36LZX (20GB)
Adaptec 19160 SCSI
Pioneer 6X SCSI DVD

[Stasis]

Did you try putting the drive in an other IDE channel, or putting another drive on the card.

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[James_Emerson]

IBM HDD is a joke btw, their fitness drive sux too. It doesn't fix nothing don't waste your time, if your hard drive kept losing it's information i suggest you send it back and get a new one.

you have a SCSI huh, if your hardware settings are correct i would restart the software all over again.

Check your bios! if your are not too sure with the setting get a motherboard manual..




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