[KLUG Members] SCSI question

[Adam Williams]

> > 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, 

? You mean cable instead of 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.  

Ok, some do some don't. Adaptec is correct, termination != termination
power.

> >>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.

If it isn't termination, and the cable is ok (you look close to see none
of the tiny little pins are bent over), then the bad news is probably
that..... {can't bring myself to say it}

Good thing you never needed that thing to spin up as a hot spare!

> 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.

Ok.

> > > 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.

Yep.