[KLUG Members] My own SCSI question

[Nikolas Reist]

Adam Williams wrote:
>>I have 5 2 g.b. Seagate SCSI 68 pin drives.  I have a differential 
>>controller and the drives all spin up but the card doesn't detect them. 
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> Right, you can't use SE devices with a DIFy controller.
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Know where I could get a SE adapter (pref used)?

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>>Well Seagate says these particular drives are only meant for single 
>>ended SCSI bus.  Plus I don't think I have all the jumpers set right 
>>either.  All of them except one are set to termpower while the last is 
>>only set to termenabled.  I am just wondering if my configs are correct 
>>at all so when I get my hands on a single-ended SCSI adapter I can get 
>>them working.  Any info about this would be excellent.
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> Your setting sound correct.
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> 1. Every drive has a unique ID, with none set as 7
> 2. Term power is enabled on at least one devices
> 3. Termination is enabled on last device OR you have a terminator on the
> end of the cable.

Only have one jumper per drive so will it matter if I don't have term 
power on one of the drives?  And does termpower have to be enabled on 
the termenabled drive?
They all have unique id's none them 7.
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