I'm trying to get a 68pin seagate st32430W scsi drive to work in my S900 but I'm having lots of troubles. The computer will not recognize it. This is my first attempt to use a 68 to 50 pin adaptor and thay may be what's wrong but I have a feeling that it has something to do with the jumpers. I've tried a few combinations for the jumpers but none seem to work. Could someone please look up the drive and explain where I should and shouldn't have jumpers in order to have the drive as a storage drive (not the primary boot drive nor the last drive/device on my scsi chain) in ID #1 or #6. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Unless hte adapter that you are using terminates just the upper 18 pins of the SCSI cable, then you *MUST* put the adapted drive at the end of your SCSI cable. The reason is that a 50 wire/pin SCSI bus only has termination on 50 pins. A 68 pin drive on a 50 pin bus still needs termination on the remaining 18 pins.
There are two ways to supply this. Either use an adapter which only terminates the upper 18 pins (yes, they exist). Or put the 68 pin drive at the end of the 50 pin cable and terminate all 68 pins of the drive.
Jeff Walther
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