| From: | Nick Lamburn |
| Date: | 17 Aug 2000 at 07:10:00 |
| Subject: | Re: A3000 SCSI hard disk problems |
Hi Darin
> I have also found that one must check to see whether or not the harddrive
> itself has termination enabled. Many harddrives have a jumper that will
> enable/disable termination in the drive itself.
>
> The original Quantum drives that came with the A3000 had termination
> enabled. You should check your other HD to see if it has termination
> enabled or not.
it is indeed terminated; as i set the required jumper to do so, on the drive
this is.
> As for the cable connectors in your diagram. Connector #1 should be to the
> mother board connector, #2 to a HD in the rear drive bay and #3 to a HD in
> a front drive bay.
>
> A HD on connector #2 should not be terminated if there is a HD on #3, and
> #3 has to have termination. If there is no HD on #3 then the HD on #2 has
> to have termination.
I put the hard disk in as per you suggestion with the cable etc. and still
no luck. However i did notice that the drive light on the A3K makes a very
faint flashing glimmer in rapid sucessions. I didn't notice this in broad
daylight. Also, the Quantum drive makes the drive light do the same thing
before it is accessed.
I'm going to try with both drives attached today, using a power splicer from
my 1200T....
Regards
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