SCSI tape drive with Adaptec adapter...
Chris Ruprecht
chrisr at ruprecht.org
Sat Sep 4 20:02:59 UTC 2004
When the SCSI BIOS shows up on your boot screen, does it see the CD-ROM
drive?
If not, the most likely cause for it not beeing seen is that it is not
working.
Usually, you do not need a driver for SCSI devices - I have never needed
one in my 11 years of Linux.
Things to check:
Does the CD-ROM drive have a unique SCSI-ID? This is settable with a few
(3) jumpers and is binary encoded. No jumper -> SCSI-ID 0, 3 jumpers ->
SCSI ID 7 - which is usually used by the Adaptor, so chose 0 - 6 only.
Do you have the SCSI termination right? The last device on the kable
needs to be terminated or you have to add a terminator (not Arnold) to
the last connector of the SCSI cable. You should also set the adaptor to
be self terminating and make it the first/last device on the cable.
Never have the adaptor sitting somewhere in the middle.
Best regards,
Chris
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:07, Gregory Gulik wrote:
> I did locate an old SCSI CD-ROM drive and put it in. It's not being
> recognized at all. So either the problem is the card or the driver.
> Now I need to try to figure out which it is.
>
> *SIGH*
>
>
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> > duh Oh!
> >
> > He said he only has one scsi device. All the others he mentioned are
> > USB (scsi emulation) and do not use the scsi adapter.
> >
> >
>
> --
> Greg Gulik http://www.gulik.org/greg/
> greg @ gulik.org
>
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