[KLUG Members] SCSI question

[Adam Bultman]

> 
> 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?

There is a terminator at the end of the drive, and there's no way to 
enable termination on the drive itself (only termination power, which 
Adaptec told me is a separate thing).  I don't see anything on the drive 
for 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.
> 

The other drive works flawlessly on there with and without the second,
'bad' drive. No issues, and I've hit the drive fairly hard, too.. It
'churns' every so often, but I'm unsure what exactly that all means when
it does that.


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

They are identical hard drives, save for amount of time used.

> > 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?
> 
Nope, 68 pin.  Standalone drives.  SCA is a PITA to work with if you don't 
have a backplane to stick in there.

> > 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.
> 

that's what I figured.

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