[KLUG Members] SCSI question

[Adam Williams]

> Hello, gentlemen. Quick question here.
> I have an IBM, 7200 RPM SCSI drive here.  ACtually, I have two.  I have 
> them connected to an Adaptec 2160 (I think).
> First drive is ID 0, second drive is ID 1.  Second drive has term power 
> enabled.  The second drive is seeing itself as having ID 8, and is 

Do you have an active terminator attached to the end of the cable? 
Otherwise can you enable termination on the drive?  And not just
terminator power.  Possily there is a socket on the back or bottom for
adding resistor packs?

> throwing errors about ASYNC - Start command failed and such.  IN the 
> Adaptec BIOS, it complains about 'No Host Adapter Error' when you try to 
> format it (I'm assuming the aformentioned error means 'the error is with 
> the drive, not the card')

Sounds like a termination issue.

Is this a wide device?  If so are both devices wide?

> The second drive *used* to be in a RAID, and I've since moved it into 

Is it a SCA drive, now using a SCA to HD?? cable to attach to the
internal ribbon cable?

> another box here in the office for testing and such.  I'm wondering if the 
> drive still thinks it is in a RAID or something and needs to be cleared, 
> or if the drive is just kaput and I need to call up IBM.  The drive has 

Nah,  all the RAIDness happens at the controller, the drive doesn't
'know' anything.