Alright, so my drives arrived, the adapters came in the mail today, I got everything all plugged in and hooked up, and guess what... neither SoftRAID nor CharisMac nor SCSIprobe see the drives on the PCI controller's bus.
Two things are flashing in my mind: "Hey, stupid, you should have listened to MacGurus and *not* bought SCA drives and then adapted them to 68-pin!" and "What the hell do I do now?" Any ideas, besides smart ass comments about how I shouldn't have gotten SCA drives? Here is how everything is hooked up: nada <--- (External) AdvanSys U2W PCI in A1 (Internal) ---> SE Drive ID 0 ---> SE Drive ID 1 ---> LVD/SE Terminator The drives are single ended (Ultra-1 Wide) 80-pin SCA to 68-pin adapted *brand spankin' new* (not new as in just manufactured recently, but new as in I'm the first to ever remove them from the original packaging) Seagate ST34371WC drives. They are OEM drives from an HP supplier, but I don't think that they have HP-only firmware. The adapters are new and came from a trusted West Coast electronics supplier and look to be good quality, although they are a long shot from Granite Digital. The terminator is labeled LVD/SE so one would assume it provides either LVD or Single Ended termination to my bus. By the way, I have tried these drives one-at-a-time, still to no avail. No ID conflicts, of course, because there isn't anything else sharing the Advansys card's bus. Also, one drive spins up on boot, the other drive beeps and then does nothing. I have never in 7 years working with SCSI drives ever heard a hard drive beep. I have scoured Google and the newsgroups, no info on beeping hard drives. What gives? I am going to pop the SCSI card in my PC and try to get the drives working on it. If I can't find a solution soon, I guess I'm going to have to try to dump these hard drives on someone who has a proper 80-pin backplate and try to find a pair of affordable native 68-pin drives. Arghhhh.... -- --Chris PM 7500/604e 200Mhz 4 gig SCSI 256 megs OS 8.6 (This machine rocks!) -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
