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80-pin SCSI drive with 29160LP

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Steelerz37

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I have a SCSI drive that I was given along with a card. The card is an Adaptec 29160LP and the drive is an 80pin ST318305LC. Its some sort of seagate/ibm server drive. I bought an 80pin adapter and plugged it in and set the jumper on my adapter to ID 1 but then nothing happens. It seems as if the drive doesnt even start. I'm very new to SCSI and am not sure what I need to do. When I boot the computer the LED on the drive does come on though but thats about it.
 
Set the hd to id 0. make sure you have a LVD terminator after the hd at the end of the cable.

Regards,
Jose
 
Originally posted by: Steelerz37
I have tried ID0 and Id1, would not not having the correct terminator keep the drive from even spinning up?
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Does the 29160 show the drive on bootup? It should do a scan of the SCSI bus and you should seem the name of the drive and other stats on bootup.. If the drive is not spinning up though, there is a problem with the drive or the SCA adapter.. Try just connecting the power to the SCA adapter and connecting it to the drive and powering the system up.. without the SCSI cable attached.

You should be able to run without the terminator, although you may get data corruption.. but the drive should spin up.. ID 0 or 1 is fine...
 
It doesnt show the drive on boot up. Although by an accident I did find that the drive will spin up when the cable is not plugged into the adapter. I have tried 2 different cables and 2 different adapters and 2 different drives, same problems with everything... also just tried a different scsi card in my friends pc and the same results, so the problem is with the cable or the adapter? keep in mind we tried 2 different adapters earlier and 2 different cables.
 
Your adapter is a LVD ultra 160 low profile adapter... What type of cables do you have ? Do they look like each individual strand was seperated ?

The adapter will tell you that the bus is not terminated if you have the wrong terminator. It must be a problem w/ the 68pin to 80ping converter..

Regards,
Jose
 
My bad. I meant to say the drives themselves usually don't have or use termination, that you put it on the connection adapter.
 
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