SCSI help!! Cant setup new hard drive! UPDATED!!!!!!

[mcveigh]

I just got the rest of my parts to have scsi hard drive today!, heres my setup

Epox 8KHA+ motherboard
tekram dc-390u3w controller
10000RPM ULTRA-160 SCSI SCA 80PIN LVD 1.6 hard drive
I have a 80 pin to 68 pin adapter
I flashed the bios to the latest version


when booting up I get this message
"adapter configuration may have changed. suggest reconfiguration"

I press ctrl-c to go into the utilities

listed under symbios host bus adapters are 2 entries.
ADAPTER PCI BUS DEV/FUNCTION PORT NUMBER IRQ NVM BOOT ORD LSI LOGIC CONTROL ENABLED

53c1010-33 0 58> d800 11 yes 0 enabled
53c1010-33 0 59> dC00 11 yes - enabled

Shouldn't there be only one device?

It just skips the scsi drive which is what I want to detect so i ca load the OS (gentoo linux)


Thanks!

 

[mcveigh]

bump

 

[Cuular]

From the tekram site, under the product features:
Channels: (2) 1 Ultra160 LVD & 1 Ultra-Wide SE

It has 2 channels in it, one Ultra - 160 one not.

If you have the correct cable for it, that has the terminator and such, then you may need to go into the tekram controllers bios and tell it which device to use as the boot device. Then go into your computers bios and tell it that it is to boot from the scsi controller not the IDE, unless you have already done this.

I have never actually used a tekram card, I run adaptec in all my systems, but I am guessing the bios on the scsi-controller will have similiar setup options.

The minimum thing you have to do is let the motherboard bios know that it should look for the scsi device as the boot device not IDE.

 

[bozo1]

And it is normal to see 2 devices - the drive and the host adapter.

 

[mcveigh]

what about this

ADAPTER PCI BUS DEV/FUNCTION PORT NUMBER IRQ NVM BOOT ORD LSI LOGIC CONTROL ENABLED

53c1010-33.......0 ........... 58> ................d800 ........11 ..yes .........0 .............enabled
53c1010-33.......0 .......59>.................... dC00 .........11 ...yes .........-............ enabled

I'm guessing now that those are the 2 channels?

cable question:
It came with 2 68 pin cables, 1 is like a ide cable with 3 connectors. the other has a terminator, and more connectors and the indvidual wires are twisted.

which should I use?

 

[bozo1]

The one with the terminator for an LVD drive.

 

[mcveigh]

whats the other one for?

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< whats the other one for? >>



Probably the other channel (the slower channel).

 

[mcveigh]

but a different type of cable? with no terminator? maybe for a drive without a need for external termination?

I'm just guessing here...

 

[bozo1]

The other cable is for non-LVD devices - a CDROM, tape drive, older SCSI hard drive.

 

[rahvin]

Older version's of scsi you mounted the terminator on the device, not the cable. LVD simplified things greatly.

In the scsi bios you can examine the slots for each device (15 if I remember correctly), figure out which channel has the harddrive on it and make that the primary channel. You can also speed up boot time by telling the adaptor you don't have a device on all the slots you don't have devices on (it skips the autodetection).

 

[mcveigh]

Thank you everyone!! I was able to set it up and install redhat 7.3!!!

BUT..... its only operating in narrowmode! at 40 mb/sec I set it to 80mb/sec and 16 bits in the bios. the drive says ultra160 scsi, is it the cabling? Im using the cable that has 6 connetctors, the hard drive is on the next to last one with a terminator on the last one.

 

[bozo1]

Sounds like your cabling is correct. If your controller is setup properly, my bet would be on your SCA adapter not being LVD compatible. Many are advertised as being compatible but are not.

 

[mcveigh]

<< Sounds like your cabling is correct. If your controller is setup properly, my bet would be on your SCA adapter not being LVD compatible. Many are advertised as being compatible but are not. >>


ahh......................................crap.:disgust:

I think I should trade this drive for a 68pin one


thank you

 

[bozo1]

I know the adapters sold by Hypermicro.com work if you want to keep the drive.

 

[rmblam]

<< Thank you everyone!! I was able to set it up and install redhat 7.3!!!

BUT..... its only operating in narrowmode! at 40 mb/sec I set it to 80mb/sec and 16 bits in the bios. the drive says ultra160 scsi, is it the cabling? Im using the cable that has 6 connetctors, the hard drive is on the next to last one with a terminator on the last one. >>



1) It is connected to the internal connector closest to the back of the tower, yes?
2) Did you pull off jumper 1 and 2 on the Adapter (enables 64 bit mode, which you don't have with that mobo).
3) Are there any jumpers on the HD that you missed? Look to see if the one forcing SE is on. Usually the boot drive is set to ID0 also.
4) Try moving the adapter to another PCI slot. This and pulling Jumper 4 on the adapter resolved my U160 falling back to narrow problem I had with it not too long ago.

Good luck.

 

[mcveigh]

<< I know the adapters sold by Hypermicro.com work if you want to keep the drive. >>



I did buy buy it from hypermicro!

all jumpers are off, its on the one closest to the back, I guess ill try moving it to a different pci slot

 

[mcveigh]

rmblam, I tried your idea about moving pci slots and I think It working at full speed.

BUT is there a way to see what what speed Im getting in Linux? Im posting from RH7.3!!

 

[mcveigh]

bueller...