jdanskinner wrote:
> Tony Lawrence wrote:
> > I'm having trouble with REV at one customer.
> >
> > If this were the ONLY REV drive I had out there, I'd be pretty down on
> > REV, but everywhere else we have them they work great.
> >
> > History here: first rev had intermittent failures. This is SCSI on a
> > Unix box, using Microlite Edge. They and I looked everything over,
> > checking cabling, termination, media, everything.. finally decided the
> > drive itself had to be bad, and replaced it. Things got better for
> > quite a while - more than a year, all was fine.
> >
> > But now intermittent failures again. Does not seem to be media, and
> > exact failure varies - very random. I'm feeling like it must be the
> > drive, but sheesh: I've had no failures at other sites, so I'm almost
> > seeing REV's as "never worry" devices - except this one.
> >
> > There's no cleaning, right? I've been through everything with the
> > Microlite folks; they see nothing. I really think I'm back to blaming
> > the hardware again but it just seems very suspicious. And of course
> > it's out of warranty now..
> >
> > Just wondering: is everyone else's REV experience generally good?
>
> Tony;
> I have no REV experience at all but I had a couple of thoughts about
> items you haven't mentioned:
> 1. Power, marginal power supply or high resistance power connection to
> the device?
> 2. Signal, connector on the SCSI cable has an unreliable connection
> pin(s) or other
> non obvious problem?
>
> I once had a machine with SCSI hard drive errors. I replaced the
> drive, replaced the
> controller, even replaced the terminator. Finally Sherlock set in and
> I replaced the
> signal cable. Problem solved. I still don't know why but drive and
> controller went to spare parts and the cable went to the dump.
> Regards...Dan.

Well, we went through all that last time and as I said, it's been fine
for more than a year.

But I suppose I do need to go in and check it all out again.. can't
hurt to throw in new cables and terminators.