[XCSSA] Average lifespan of an Adaptec SCSI card?

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

One other thing you might check is if any thing was recently added to
the electric circuit that the computer is on (such as a freezer down
the hall).  Brown outs do freaky things to computer hardware.

Craig

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:06 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San
Antonio<xcssa at xcssa.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:58:00 am X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio
> 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).
>
> I would put the card in another machine and verify if it's actually bad or
> not.  It's more likely that the motherboard bus chips overheated and went
> south before the SCSI card.
>
> The other suggestions on the list about cleaning the edge connector and
> reseating the card and what not are good ones..
>
>
>> My question is, under this typical data center environment, what is
>> the average lifespan of a SCSI card (or a SATA card)?
>
> once a card (or any not overly hot chip/card device) is adequately "burned
> in".. it usually has a longer lifespan than you (unless is has a lot of
> electrolytic caps that run  the risk of drying out and stopping).
>
>
> Check it in another machine.. (as well as you cables, clean the connector,
> etc).
>
> Tweeks
>
>
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