Well... it seems to be fixed!!!! Out of sheer desperation, I took the drive out and cleaned the laser with Qtip and Windex. Now the thing runs awesome again. I don't know if the cleaning fixed it coincidently, or if the lense was just dirty. Either way, its working great. Thanks for everyones help.
Casey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2003-01-15 at 1257.23 -0800): > > Is it possible that the drive is just going bad? As I understand scsi, > > copying from 1 scsi device to another should not make the system flinch. > > Most IO is done on the card. What would be a good inidicator of a drive > > going out? I don't have another scsi cdrw drive to swap with. > > Does it work with stock kernels (distro binaries) or different > compiler? Another (best) option is to put it in another SCSI machine, > one you know that is working fine. BTW, I have a machine in which high > load in the driver (like an OS upgrade reading and writing to HDD a > lot) makes the kernel go down (2.4 versions, 2.2 work fine), so SCSI > is not magic, there is a driver that could fail, like with any other > system. > > GSR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
