SCSI Expert: I need help, help....!!!

Tanker135

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SCSI termination. This has been giving me the big headache. I though I have a good understanding of SCSI termination, but now I am confusing like hell.
I have a Gigabyte board (model GA-6BXDS) with dual channel UW SCSI with Adaptec built in chip set (AIC-7895). The manual is almost clear tell you how to set up in the BIOS for most of the case except in my case (pretty ODD, isn't).

This is what I connect into my computer
a. Plextor 4x12 recorder in channel A (50 pin)terminated in Plextor device.
b. Plextor UltraPlex 40 Wide in channel A (68 pin)also terminated in the device itself.
c. Two UW hard drives in channel B with the last drive terminated.

This is the spec and opitions in my SCSI board
1. Channel A has both UW (16 bit/68pin)and Narrow (8bit/50pin) connectors (one each).
2. Channel B has only one UW connector (16 bit).
3. The options in BIOS for channel A are LOW Byte, High Byte or Disable
4. The options in BIOS for channel B are Enable or DIsable.
5. Also after it passed the POST, you can press <Control -A> to get into SCSI set up utility to set further parameters for the SCSI devices. Every Adaptec SCSI has this set up utility. This has the option to set :Automatic, LOW=OFF/HIGH=OFF, LOW=OFF/HIGH=ON, LOW=ON/HIGH=OFF or LOW=ON/HIGH=ON. For some reason I cannot set to automatic.

My questions is what do I need to set up in questions 2, 3 and 4 for my case. Thanks all for the inputs.
 

FaultCode

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I don't see the choices in question two. I would say to set channel A to high byte and set channel B to enable.
 

GeoffS

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Some of the Adaptec cards that have both narrow and wide internal connectors do not allow both to be used at the same time. Is this possible with the mobo version?
 

Tanker135

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Sorry, I need the answer for questions 3, 4 and 5.
Yes, my mother board allowed for both narrow and wide on channel A.