DAT won't work....

[FSM]

Hi guys, I don't know if this is the right place to ask my question but here it goes...

Got a Sony dds4 with an Adaptec card, the thing is that the card is 50 pin and the dat is 68 pin, I bought the adapters and everything, I just want to know if it would work or do I have to buy the 68 pin adapter, My dat is not working and I don't know what im doing wrong... any suggestions???

Thank you !

 

[Jesperrim]

How is this connected - through a Narrow or a Wide cable?

When you mix these two SCSI types, it does have a tend to go haywire and send you to SCSI hell..

Termination on the two types is different - Narrow requires 8 bit termination and wide requires 16 bit active termination.

If you connected the drive to a 68 pin cable and then plugged a 68->50 pin converter into the SCSI controller you at least need to ensure that termination is performed on the cable - as the drive ONLY supplies termination power. Terminating the drive correctly in no guarantee that the drive will work properly - SCSI converters can cause intermitted errors, like I/O device and CRC errors.

You might have to ask yourself - will I/we use SCSI in the future? If yes - the go out and get a wide controller!
As the DDS-4 is capable of a max. transfer rate at 40MB/sec - not really any point in getting an Ultra320 controller when a cheap 2940UW will do the job!