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SUN SCSI drives on a PC
I have some old Connor 1 Gig hard drives that are external SUN SCSI Hard drives. When I connect the drives individually to my Adaptec 2940 SCSI card they work fine. I can format with no problem under Windows 2000. When I chain more than one drive on the same SCSI the SCSI BIOS sees all the drives, each with a unique SCSI ID, but Win2k only sees the first drive.
On the back of the SUN case it says something about Auto Terminate. I assume each drive in the casing is auto terminating, I can remove the SCSI termination from the end of the bus and the first drive works fine. I check on the drive and there is no markings to tell what the sets of pins do.
Any ideas how to get more than one drive the be recognized in Win2k.
On the back of the SUN case it says something about Auto Terminate. I assume each drive in the casing is auto terminating, I can remove the SCSI termination from the end of the bus and the first drive works fine. I check on the drive and there is no markings to tell what the sets of pins do.
Any ideas how to get more than one drive the be recognized in Win2k.
If the SCSI BIOS lists all the drives with different ID numbers, then there is no termination problem. How are you checking in Win2000? In 'My Computer'? If so, the extra drives may simply need to be partitioned and formatted so that Win2000 can use them. Check in Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management and use the 'logical disk services' to check whether Win2000 just needs to partition the drives.
There is nothing special about these drives and they will work on your PC with the Adaptec SCSI controller. You are on the right track with the termination problem I think.
Conner is no longer around having been acquired by Seagate but you can still find drive information and jumper settings on the Seagate web site.
See:
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/interpret_model.html#ConPreDA_0
My guess is that this is the drive:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/scsi/cp31370.html
Conner is no longer around having been acquired by Seagate but you can still find drive information and jumper settings on the Seagate web site.
See:
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/interpret_model.html#ConPreDA_0
My guess is that this is the drive:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/scsi/cp31370.html
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Excellent site with an insane amount of info on the old cards. It turned out not to be a terminate problem, but the site had great info.
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