Re: SCSI HD

SCSI cables need to be terminated so the connectors are
capped. The drive should be seen if the SCSI adapter is
working, check the BIOS and the device manager see what is
enabled.
You do need jumpers, check the drive maker's web site to see
how to jumper the drive and check Iomega site for the
adapter settings. They should show you the proper way to
terminate the cable with a cap.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/scsi/cables-c.html


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"Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|I bought, sometime ago, a 36.5 Gig or so HD for an old
apple which is
| broken. As it is too
| old, I thought in using the drive for one of my PCs. Now,
the device (HD)
| comes with a converter to plug older machines. And I have
an SCSI adaptor
| (Iomega) in my PC which has a 50 pin connector to plug
SCSI internal
| devices, the one which used to be called SCSI 1. So, I
have plugged
| everything without adding any jumpers. The disk doesn't
show up either on
| the BIOS or in WinXP. I enter the BIOS of the adapter and
make a bus scan
| and I get: 'no device found'. The HD spins all right, too
fast to my taste,
| but I have no experience with SCSI HDs, and when the bus
scan is in progress
| I hear the adaptor accessing the drive. I have tried
setting the SCSI ID to
| all settings from 0 to 3 and I have tried fiddling with
the remaining four
| (or three?) jumpers which in the converter are labels only
with acronyms I
| do not really know what they stand for.
|
| What worries me is that the SCSI adaptor doesn't see the
drive. It must be
| formatted Apple because I bought it in an Apple computer
shop, but even
| though the adapter should see it, don't you think?
Something like reporting
| it found a drive with a funny format or no format at all.
|
| I have spent a good deal of time researching the subject
and I only found
| one piece of information which might be useful: "enable
bus scan", but
| looking to the HD itself or the converter, there is no
jumper to stop or
| allow bus scan. Any suggestions?
|
| Teilhard.
|
|


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