a newbie scsi question

[derekb77]

i have an adaptec 29160 card and i was wondering what i should be seeing during bootup when my drives are being recognized. i have a scsi fujitsu mag3182LC hd, a yamaha 8x4x24 cd-rw, and a pioneer 303s hooked up to the controller.
(i have the two drives daisy chained to the 50 pin connector and the hd connected to the lvd connector.)

right now i see:

fujitsu mag3182LC : 40
yamaha 8x4x24 : 20
pioneer 303s : 20

should i be seeing "80" instead of "40" next to my fujitsu mag3182LC. the specs for the drive are here:

http://www.fcpa.com/product/prd_product_frame.html


everything works fine, i just want to make sure im getting the optimal performance from my hardware. also are the two disk drives performing optimally? is this the correct setup? please help!!

 

[Wooster]

Derekb77:

Your harddrive info is hard to find. Here is the URL.

http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/hypertext/hdd/drive/overseas/mag3xxx/mag3xxx.html

http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/hypertext/hdd/drive/overseas/mag3xxx/jumper.html

Go into your SCSI BIOS (Ctrl-A) and under boot spec (if I remember it right). Make sure it's running its default Ultra160 on ID0 or you can manual set at 80. See if anything turn out. Since I am away from town and don't have my computer in front of me. I can't really tell you the detail. Good luck!!

 

[derekb77]

i connected the hd to the lvd port on the 29160 with a lvd compatible cable and now nothing is working. i am also using a SCA to LVD converter(80 to 68 pin ). when i connect with the old cable which is not lvd compatible i get the "40" initialization but when i connect with the new LVD cable i get nothing. it says its looking for scsi devices but cant find any. what should i do now? do i have to reformat the drive so it will see the drive at "80"? i was thinking that by just switching the cable it would recognize the lvd bandwith of "80" but it doesnt do anything. please help!!!