I have been using an Adaptec 2940UW scsi card with no problems ( until I did the following. I only had narrow devices on the card (a drive and cdrom) but I found a nice Quantum SCA LVD/SE drive. Since I don't have an sca card (if such a thing exists), I am using an sca-UW adapter. I set the drive for SE operation and attach it using the adapter to the UW (68 pin) connector on the card. it is recognized, low level formatted and verified with no problems. On the internal 50 pin connector, I have a cdrom connected. The problem is that I am using Linux and I can't get the installation program (Mandrake 7.1) to finish without the machine hanging in scsi timeout/reset errors. So far here is what I have tried: 1 - The drive synchs at 40MB/s and I have tried turning this down a notch (disabling UW negotiation) with no success. Has anyone ever had any problems using on of these adapters? 2 - I tried cloning the narrow drive to the sca one and booting the kernel (2.4-pre4) and the result is the same timeout/reset loop. 3 - Tried installing RedHat 6.2 and this time the scsi timeout occurred on the cdrom instead of the hard drive. 4 - Tried using another 2940 with an older bios (1.23) and that did not work. 5 - Tried replacing the UW cable and tried using a cable with a terminating end instead of terminating the adapter card. Any ideas out there? Prophete J. Charles University of Pittsburgh Department of Bioengineering Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
