Hello everyone, I was curious if anyone knew of a tutorial with some pictures on how to install a scsi hard drive? I know a lot about scsi hdd's, but unfortunately I have learned it through books. I have never seen one, nor built one... any tutorials on how to configure scsi hard drives?
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How ti install SCSI? 2
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Install controller, set ID & terminator on drive and install drive, install cable between the controller and drive. Power up and fdisk , format, and load operating system.
Controller will be more properly named host adapter.
The end drive on a chain needs a terminator middle drives don't, either by activating the one on the drive or put on the ribbon beyound the last hard drive.
This is the quick and dirty. ID is set by jumpers on modern drives, you want no jumpers so it is ID=0.
Ed Fair
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Controller will be more properly named host adapter.
The end drive on a chain needs a terminator middle drives don't, either by activating the one on the drive or put on the ribbon beyound the last hard drive.
This is the quick and dirty. ID is set by jumpers on modern drives, you want no jumpers so it is ID=0.
Ed Fair
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
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Good info on SCSI is available at and there are links to other resources as well. The documentation that comes with the host adapter card should be helpful as well as the installation pamphlet(s) for the drive(s) (download them from the mfr's web site and print 'em out).
. One important note is that an 80-pin (SCA) SCSI hard drive shouldn't be the ONLY drive on a cable as the last drive on the terminator end of the cable is supposed to supply power to the terminator (TermPwr jumper). SCA drives lack the TermPwr jumper and internal termination as they are designed to be plugged into a backplane which handles all that, so SCA drives generally won't work well, if at all, as the only drive type on a cable(I learned from experience). Although the TermPwr function should be easy to implement on an 80-to-68-pin adapter, I've never seen it done.
.b.h.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest. -- Thomas Paine.
. One important note is that an 80-pin (SCA) SCSI hard drive shouldn't be the ONLY drive on a cable as the last drive on the terminator end of the cable is supposed to supply power to the terminator (TermPwr jumper). SCA drives lack the TermPwr jumper and internal termination as they are designed to be plugged into a backplane which handles all that, so SCA drives generally won't work well, if at all, as the only drive type on a cable(I learned from experience). Although the TermPwr function should be easy to implement on an 80-to-68-pin adapter, I've never seen it done.
.b.h.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest. -- Thomas Paine.
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