I need help please.

[how786]

Hi all,
I'm having a problem. My system has 2 Cheetah HDs running on an ASUS A7266 MB, 512 meg of DDR, ASUS7700 video card and an Adaptec 29160 controller. For the first week all was well. Yesterday, after my first forced shutdown due to locking up on the web, when I reboot, the Adaptec scsi info I see as the system boots keeps telling me that the 2 HDs are at 40 meg/sec rather than 160. Inside the Cntrl-A Scsi Bios setup both HDs are still SET for 160 meg/sec. I've no idea what happened. I ran a system benchmark in Norton system info and it is still the same as before (680 or so) I also ran a Seagate HD testing program and both HDs test fine tho I don't know the actual transfer rate.
Any help appreciated.....
Howard

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[Guest]

Okay, I'm grasping here with you. I'm assuming that you are now seeing something different than you saw before (my SCSI system doesn't show transfer rates on bootup). I'm also assuming that your Cheetah drives are at least Ultra-2 compliant, meaning that they're Wide drives.

I don't know about your controller's interface, but also check the SCSI setup to see that the "initiate wide negotiation" or something similar is set to yes. That means that it tries to set them up as 16-bit drives instead of 8.

Also, did you recently add any new devices to your SCSI chain? The bus will slow down for the slowest device, which may have also happened. Also verify that your connections are all solid (though I would think that faulty connections would just not boot up at all).

Hope this helps. Maybe a guru will throw her/his tuppence in as well.

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[how786]

Hi,
I solved the problem by removing and then reinserting the card. Something must have gotten stuck in memory somewhere! :>
Thanks
How

"We can do no great things, Only small things with Great Love"
Mother Theresa