| From: | Jack York |
| Date: | 2 Jul 2001 at 19:03:35 |
| Subject: | Re: Arright, what's going on here? [SCSI update] |
Hello Sean
On 03-Jul-01, Sean Courtney wrote:
> I recently posted about my problems in getting a SCSI hard drive to
> work. To review, here's what happened...
>
> I ordered an 18-gig SCSI-3 hard drive. The manual says that it comes
>
> "It's your SCSI setup, you fool!" you all cried. So I spent $128 on the
> following items: one internal active SCSI-3 terminator, one external
> active SCSI-3 terminator, and one MD50-to-SCSI3 adaptor so I could use
> the external SCSI-3 terminator.
It's too late now, but you spent way too much. Should have been closer to
half that amount from my experience.
> I tried countless different things. One time I removed the Zip and the
> Yamaha [AND the INTERNAL terminator] and just attached the external
> So...what should I do?
From the sound of it you may be trying to do too much at one time and it is
confusing you. If I were you I would concentrate on getting the HD working
by itself. Forget about adding the zip and cd until you are sure it is
working correctly. I know you mentioned you tried this above but if the
setup wasn't correct you were just wasting your time.
The first thing you should do is verify that the jumpers on the HD are
correct. If this is a LVD drive then you will need to have a jumper on it
forcing it to single ended operation. There may be some other jumpers
required as well. Are these all correct?
Once the drive is jumpered correctly, add it to the system so that your
setup looks like this: (be sure power is off BTW)
Active terminator <- CyberStorm -> 18 gig HD -> Active terminator
Once you do this boot into the early startup menu of the CSPPC and make
the unit you have active (unit one in your case). Also make all of the other
ones inactive. Save this setup and reboot. Now go into HDInstallTools and
setup the filesystem and then partition the drive. For now, just make a
small partition (100 meg is fine) and ignore the rest of the HD. The reason for
this is that if you are using an older version of the OS then you won't be able
to use larger partitions without some additional work. And even if you have
PFS, I would stick with FFS for now since you don't have to change any of
the settings in HDInstTools and will be less likely to introduce a new problem.
You can go back and make changes later. If you get this far, save the
changes and reboot (when you get the requester asking if you want to).
Once your system is up, do a QUICK format of the drive. Where do you
stand now? Does the new partition show up?
Jack
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