From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 14:24:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A99637B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3347443EB7 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g9ALOKW20747 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:24:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3DA5F1E2.30605@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:32:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [OT] SCSI 80 to 68 pin converters, do they work? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We didn't think that this would be a big deal, but maybe it is. We recently purchased 2 Seagate ST173404LCV 70G SCSI-160 hard drives with the 80 pin connectors, as well as a pair of 80-68 pin adapters so we could hook them up to a 68-pin system. In our tests, the drives are detected at 40mb/s by the Adaptec controller card. This is not a FreeBSD issue, because it's the SCSI bios that detects the drives at 40. I've tried tweaking every setting I could in Adaptec bios, and yet the drive is detected at 40. I grabbed another SCSI-160 drive with a 68 pin connector (not using the converter) and it's detected at 160. This means it's either the 80-68 converter or it's the drive itself. So ... before I send these drives back to Seagate and complain, does anyone have experience with these 80-68 pin converters to tell me whether it could be causing the problem or not? We got them for less than $10 - should we buy the more expensive converters? We've tried 2 converters/ 2 drives in all possible combinations and it always detects as 40. Any feedback is very much appreciated! -Bill Moran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message