Associate
- Joined
- 27 Jan 2006
- Posts
- 9
SCSI Hard Drive Problem. Is it dead?
I just bought a 2nd hand SCSI setup, consisting of an Adaptec 19160 PCI controller (Ultra SCSI 3, so should be 160MB/s), a Quantum Atlas 10K 18.2GB Drive and a round 68pin SCSI cable with terminator.
I have set it all up, however there seems to be a problem with the drive. When I test it using HDTach or HDTune, it gets VERY poor results. At the same time, it makes very loud noises (kinda like a mobile phone if it were vibrating ontop of your pc case ) during some of the tests. I can access it fine, and Windows Scan Disk says it has no bad sectors.
I know the PCI Bus could be a limiting factor, but could it limit it that much, or is it a dodgy drive, or is there some setting/setup issue somewhere that I'm missing? The only other thing I have on the PCI Bus is my sound card.
Here is the screen shot from HDTach:
Thanks in advance.
I just bought a 2nd hand SCSI setup, consisting of an Adaptec 19160 PCI controller (Ultra SCSI 3, so should be 160MB/s), a Quantum Atlas 10K 18.2GB Drive and a round 68pin SCSI cable with terminator.
I have set it all up, however there seems to be a problem with the drive. When I test it using HDTach or HDTune, it gets VERY poor results. At the same time, it makes very loud noises (kinda like a mobile phone if it were vibrating ontop of your pc case ) during some of the tests. I can access it fine, and Windows Scan Disk says it has no bad sectors.
I know the PCI Bus could be a limiting factor, but could it limit it that much, or is it a dodgy drive, or is there some setting/setup issue somewhere that I'm missing? The only other thing I have on the PCI Bus is my sound card.
Here is the screen shot from HDTach:
Thanks in advance.
Last edited: