[XCSSA] Average lifespan of an Adaptec SCSI card?

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

Just out of curiousity, have you tried the usual tricks of cleaning
the various connectors/board slot(s)?

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, X-otic Computer Systems of San
Antonio<xcssa at xcssa.org> wrote:
> After 6 years of faithful service, our Adaptec SCSI adaptor (Adaptec
> 3410S Ultra160 4 channel) may have bit the dust. Over the weekend, 2
> of the 6 drives failed and were marked as Dead. I have replaced those,
> however, the server keeps kernel panicing at random intervals with
> regards to the dpt_i2o driver (kernel SCSI driver).