[rescue] more scsi questions

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com>
" 
" 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.

drives themselves have jumpers, even sca ones.  that's what i meant.

" 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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