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SCSI Termination Question

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jamison

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Hello,

I am setting up a Seagate Cheetah X15 Ultra160 SCSI 18.4GB hard drive with an Adaptec 39160 Dual Channel Ultra160 Kit.

My current configuration includes the cable being terminated in the end, then the hard drive connected, and all of the rest of the connectors have nothing connected to them (of course it is connected to the Adaptec controller though).

When I go and install Win2K, it says "can not format the drive - may be damaged or termination is setup wrong". Do I need to install another terminator along the cable?

Someone must know what I am doing wrong 🙂
Thank you.
 
isn't there any kind of terminator on the hard disk itself? i.e. is there kind of switch or alike that to terminate it instead of the cable?
 
This is my first time using SCSI, I really am not sure, but a friend told me to put a terminator on the end of the cable.
This particular hard drive has a SCA connector.
 
That hard drive does not have onboard termination....it requires a LVD cable with termination buit-in. Sounds to me like your possibly using the wrong cable or wrong adapter.
The Adapter 80-68 pin should be LVD compatable, same with the 68pin cable which should have termination built-in.
Did ya buy the SCSI card as a kit (cables included) or did ya have to buy seperate?
May not be your problems but thats where I would check first.
 
don't think i,m an expert, cause i'm not but i've mounted some scsi devices before and have had some problems with terminatios and from my own experience and if nobody else tells anything extra, you have to find in the back of the hard drive some dip switch (like those for setting it to slave-master) that figures out something like term termination termiantor, etc. you have to close it. my own experience with two internal drives and an external scsi device had to be finished that way to work properly.
let me know. hope to be helpful
 
oops, something that knows more that me comes in.
good luck, i give way. sorry for not being your solution.
 
hey like they say 2 heads are better than 1....i'm not a scsi expert either i know enough to get by somewhat....learned alot thanx to anandtech.
 
I have the OEM version of the Adaptec.

I have a 68pim LVD cable with build in termination, plus an extra terminator and a SCA-80 Female to SCSI-3 68pin adapter.
 
ya don't need that extra terminator then, sounds like the cable is fine....is that adapter LVD compatable? probably should have asked if the scsi card detects the drive upon boot up, but then again it probably did if your installing 2K....
 
The drive is not seen in FDISK, but Win2K setup sees it fine.

I think FDISK is limited, maybe it can not see hard drives attached to SCSI controllers?
I am redoing everything now and so far so good. I will let you know how it goes.

I forgot to mention. I have a Plextor SCSI cdrw on ID 4 also. And on the onboard IDE, I have a 75GB IBM as primary master, and a 16x DVD as secondary master.

Right now, the SCSI drive is C: and the 75GB is D:
Windows is formatting the D: drive right now because it said to install on C: it would need to copy some setup files to D:
Then when it goes to format D:, it will only allow me to format it in FAT32.


Just a weird situation I guess 🙂
 
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