Adaptec 29160 connectivity problem with MSCS

[CocoSavage]

Hi All,

I have been having a problem with a new cluster setup.

this is the specs

2 x Dual 1gig Gigabyte Flat Rack Mounted Servers with
These have 2 h/w mirrored 20gig IDE Drives each,
512mb Ram
2 Intel 100mb NICs each
1 Apdaptec 29160 host adpaters each

1 x Storage Unit with SCSI daughter board backup power supply. This has 2 20 gig Fugitsu's and 3 Quatumns

2 x SCSI Y Cable

The Y cables are setup with one end to the storage array, another to the server and the other terminated.

Orignally I had two plain cables connected to the Servers, the solution seemed to work ok, but the cluster had no tolerance as when one was shut off, the other would pack up because there was no termination.

I replaced these with the two Y cables at some expense. Now I cannot get the termination correct. I was sent incorrectly differential terminators(HVD) with the cables which of course was not compatible with LVD which I am using.

Does anyone have any idea what sort of termination I should be using? I have recieved a response from Adaptec that made little sense to me .. here it is
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I am responding to your issue with Adaptec SCSI Card 19160.

For SCSI connection, you have to use active terminator with LVD
support. But for clustering server, our card cannot support in either
way because our BIOS is not support more than one initiator.
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This did not make much sense to me, is he saying I need to use Active Terminators, or is he saying that the 29160 is just not going to work?

Anyhow, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

coco

 

[gnordli]

I was under the impression you have to disable the bios on the shared scsi bus.

 

[vsz]

As I understend Adaptec wants to say that this adapter doesn't support clustering. BIOS of the adapter which supports clustering should allow you to setup Initiator ID (They should be different for each board, for example 6 and 7).