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Re: Ramfast w/2 hard drives
Previously tolsen@netcom.com (Tall Runner) wrote:
>I've got a Ramfast Rev d. Had a Conner 200mb drive hooked up to it for
>quite a while. Along the way I've hooked up other drives to it
>temporarily for copying to/from the 200mb drive. They all seemed to
>work well.
>
>I just bought a Seagate ST1950N 766mb drive to replace my 200mb drive.
>I hooked the Seagate up to the Ramfast (by itself), formatted it and
>partitioned it just fine. All seemed to work well. Then I hooked the
>200mb drive back up to the chain and turned everything back on. The
>Ramfast does not automatically go into the utils to tell me a new device
>has been attached (as it should), instead it boots off the 200mb drive.
>
>When I go into the Ramfast utils, it shows me all the 200mb partitions
>and the first partition of the Seagate. When I select Scsi Utils, it
>does not show me a list of devices, instead it acts as if the 200mb
>drive is the only drive attached and goes directly to show me the
>partition sizes of the 200mb drive.
Hmm, recently I've had the same problem. All though I've had the 3.01
ROM, I've been reluctant to use it because I don't like the way it
supports my SyQuest so I've been using a 3.00 ROM. When I changed my
Vulcan over to a SCSI drive, I couldn't get the RamFAST to see both
drives. I eventually relented and decided to try the 3.01 ROM and voila!
There they were!
>The 200mb drive is SCSI ID0, and the Seagate is SCSI ID1. The Ramfast
>is supplying terminator power and both drives are un-terminated. I've
>tried removing the ramfast termination power and terminating the last
>drive in the chain, but no change.
You'll still need to terminate the last drive.
>I've been told that the Seagate may be a SCSI II drive and I need to
>install a jumper to put it into SCSI I mode. Does anyone have any ideas
>on what's wrong? Anyone have any experience with this Seagate Drive???
I don't think this should make any difference.
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Herbert Fung herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
Edmonton Remote Systems Serving Edmonton/Northern Alberta since 1982