First post, by auron
i have a 98se setup on a quantum atlas V 9.1gb SCSI drive connected to a 2940UW, after a couple of months of not being used the system suddenly started to exhibit some strange brief freezes of about 3-5 seconds that could happen maybe once every 30-60 seconds both while browsing through files/device manager and in games; for instance i tried running ut99 and whenever such a freeze happened it would be accompanied by the music briefly looping, kind of like what can be observed in some redbook games like half-life when a track starts (except ut99 doesn't use redbook, of course). system monitor did not seem to catch these, so there weren't any spikes displayed.
for troubleshooting this, what i tried is a scan in the adaptec BIOS which came up with nothing, a MHDD scan which came up with just about 10 sectors in the <50ms range, with the rest all <10ms, and finally a scandisk surface scan with the repair option enabled, which also listed no errors. since then curiously the freezes stopped occurring again, so maybe scandisk did remap some bad sectors? is there any way to check the status on that, as these SCSI drives seem to not support SMART?
