Need some help with SCSI :^(

[BD231]

Sorry about the empty post, hit the enter button to soon.

Ok here it goes. I have an Adaptech 2940UW SCSI card, I recently got a 9.1gig 7,200rpm HDD and for the life of me couldn't get it to work. At first the drive wasn't even seen by the controller card which trip'd me up pretty good but I found out one of the pin's was bent on the cable so I fixed that and the drive showed up. After that, I tried to put an OS on the HD. Started my computer with the WinXP Pro in and had the cd-rom set to first boot device on IDE. I got to the part where it says "press any key to enter windows setup", so I press enter and a little DOS screen line poped up saying "Windows is inspecting hardware configureation". Never went any further than that, my computer just sat there and did nothing. After working with a friend over AIM to try and figure what was going on, we couldn't manage to get the drive working. So I sent it back to the person I got it from and they should be replying to me tomorrow on wether the drive or my system was at fault. The crazy thing is, when I had no drive connected to my scsi card, the WinXP setup worked fine, it installed all the drivers needed for my controller card and everything. There is a terminator on the end of the 68pin cable and the HDD was seen as ID# 0 by the card so everything was in order. I just bought another drive, the Seagate ST34501W, off the forums and I hope evertyhing will go smooth. Since I'm a newbie with SCSI I need to know exactly what to expect. My main questions would be:

1: Should Windows XP Pro setup just like it would on any other IDE hdd, or do I have to do something extra
2: Would there ever be IRQ conflicts
3: Are there any hidden settings in the controller card that need to be changed
4: Was I right in thinking the drive was dead
6: What other drives can I use with proper adapters that arn't UW

Thanks for your time,
Brian

 

[bozo1]

What kind of drive is it? Ultra2, Ultra160, Ultra-Wide? Model #? What kind of cable do you have? Using any sort of adapter?

If it's not Ultra2 or Ultra160, terminate the drive via the proper jumper on the drive itself. Sounds like you have a termination problem.

1. Yes - It'll detect that host adapter and install the proper drivers for you.
2. Shouldn't be an issue.
3. Make sure termination in the host adapter BIOS's is set to Auto.
4. Could be but it sounds like a termination or cabling problem to me.
5. Got me.
6. Don't understand the question.

 

[BD231]

The drive I first had was a Seagate Barracuda 9.1GB 7200RPM Ultra Wide, Model Number ST19171W. Termination should have been fine, there is a terminator at the end of the cable and Termination was set to Auto in the BIOS as well. Question #6 ment that I was wondering if it was possible to use U160 and LVD on this card by means of some type of adapter. I should mention that the first time I tried to start up the drive, there was a loud crack followed by a strong smell of smoke. I shut off the computer very quickly and decided not to mess the drive anymore. However, the guy I bought it from told me to try it agian, and upon installing I could not get an OS on it, but it did spin up and the SCSI card recognized the drive.