[PLUG] Hardware question

[Petcher, Danielx J]

I don't know if your specific controller has different options, but every
SCSI controller I've used has enumerated devices on its bus(es) on POST.

1) do you have other devices besides the tape drive on that SCSI bus?
2) do you have physical termination resistor packs on the controller card,
or is SCSI termination handled by jumpers or software?
3) are you confident that you have good cables?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Johnson [mailto:russj at dimstar.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 5:15 PM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: [PLUG] Hardware question
> 
> 
> How about a non-os-specific question?
> 
> I have a SCSI tape drive hooked to an Adaptec 2940W controller. The 
> controller posts. Should the controller recognize the drive 
> during post, or 
> does it ignore it, similar to how some EIDE controllers 
> ignore CD ROMs 
> during post?
> 
> I've tried setting the drive to various SCSI ids. It's an 
> external drive, 
> although I can take it out of the housing and hook it up to the card 
> internally. I haven't tried that yet.
> 
> SCSI termination is present on the back of the drive housing, 
> and it's turn 
> on in the card setup. The card doesn't recognize the drive in 
> setup either.
> 
> The drive is a Sony, SDT-S9000. It basically a SDT-9000 with 
> an external 
> chassis.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> 
> Russ