> Has anyone had any success on figuring out the jumper setup to get a > Seagate ST15150W (Compaq No. 199591-001). I know these were pulled > from a RAID box, but it seems to me that they should work in a PCI > Mac... I've DLed the config sheets from Seagate, but haven't been > able to hit the right combination... Any tidbit of wisdom would be > appreciated...
I have to concur that these old 7200 rpm Seagate were hot and loud and not really worth your effort for 4some gig of storage. . . .but hey, who's to let reason stop us! First, Jeff is absolutely right about re-tagged drives from "server application" use. If it was formatted under a unix filesystem or they used some sort of proprietary formatting for the array it was a part of. . .you're really better off making an ashtray out of that drive. I've only ever been able to reformat a handful these types of drives for a MacOS. I believe they mess with the master boot record of the drive. . .though OSX should be able to handle it so I dunno. . . http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/scsi/st15150w.html Looking at J4, the 7 position vertical jumper block above the power connector. Pin 1 is the top-most pin: Pin 1 off, pin 2 on, pin 3 on, pin 4 on, pin 5 on, pin 6 depends, pin 7 on. Pin 6 enables the drive termination. It should be on if this drive is the last (terminating) drive in the SCSI chain and off if it is a middle device in the chain. Jumper block J01 is the small, 2-position block above J4 that controls where termination power is drawn from. This is important if this is the terminating device on the chain (i.e. #6 on J4 is jumpered). As you look at the back of the drive, with the interface and power connectors down, try jumpering vertically across the right-most two pins. This will have it try and draw term. power from the bus. If this fails try mounting it horizontally across the top two pins and draw term power from the drive. The J5 block, between the interface and the power connector, controls the drive ID. Jumper the two pins closest to the power plug for ID #1, the second one over for ID #2 and both of them for ID 3. Hopefully one of these combos is free on that bus. The left-most pins, next to the interface, are empty, and the second set from the left is an LED connector (may be informative as you tinker). On J4. . .pins 5 and 7 are reserved. . .if you think you have everything else right and still not working try these in all 4 combos (all on, 1, the other, then both). If none of that works. . .and the drive formatting software *should* see the drive but cannot. . .or if the software is giving you errors. . .shoot the drive. Good luck -Greg -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
