[rescue] more scsi questions

[William Barnett-Lewis]

The adapter is jumpered as Id 0 and delay. I pulled off the 146 and just
plugged in the 1 gb and it Just Worked. Am trying to check if there is a
firmware update but the cd won't boot fully.

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 15:59 Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us wrote:

> " From: William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com>
> "
> " I have my Alphastation 200 4/233 here. I have 320 mb ram in it and
> " popped in a nice 8mb video card. I put in the 146 gb drive with the
> " SCA/50 pin adaptor and I can get it to see the everything else. The
> " floppy, the ethernet, scsi bus & cdrom all show up but not the drive.
> " On a whim, I put in my much too small to use 1.05 gb SCA drive and
> " boom! there it is in "Show Dev". Sigh, Not sure what the problem
> " really is but...
>
> have you checked/compared the drive jumpers?  there's no reason the
> 146 should not work.
>
> is the drive known good?
>
> there's the vanishingly small chance it's hvd.
>
> another vanishingly small chance it was used in a storage array with a
> peculiar sector size.
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