Re: Adaptec 29160 + AcceleRAID 250 ?

"CIV" <sawbona@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1122582769.086071.133530@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello:
>
> I am in need of advise on how to set up some new SCSI hardware that I
> have been donated recently.
>
> At present I have a W2000 Professional SP3 setup, (used as a workstation)
> on a Soyo SY-6BB motherboard (440BX chipset) with an Intel Pentium III
> 450mhz. processor (512K cache), 512Mb PC133 RAM and an Adaptec 29160
> card.
>
> Save the floppy, there are no IDE drives connected to the board.
>
> The Adaptec 29160 card has a 40x CD-ROM, CD-R and HP Surestore 5000
> DAT units connected to the 50 SE connector and three IBM 34L9195 (9.1Gb
> 10K) SCA-80 drives (forced to SE) on the 68 pin LVD/SE connector using
> a Foxconn SE SCSI cable with termination and 68/SCA-80 adaptors
> (SCA8068SLVD from www.stsi.com).
>
> The IBM drives were forced to SE

Oh, how so? The Foxconn terminator should do that by itself.
If not it may be defective.

> because I kept getting errors in the log file using a terminated LVD cable
> and the drives at 80mb/s.

What happens if you only set/limit the speed to 40MB/s ?

>
> The new hardware I received is a Mylex AcceleRAID 250 PCI adapter with
> a 32Mb memory cache.
>
> I'd like to use the Mylex card to set up a RAID1 array using another
> two identical drives I have to mirror all my data, (I can keep ghost
> images of the OS on CDs) so my guess is that I'll keep booting from the
> Adaptec 29160 card and disable the BIOS on the Mylex 250.
>
> My questions with respect to this would be:
>
> Both cards will want to use SCSI ID 7: on which card should I change
> the ID?

Neither.

>
> Is there a problem with using more than three of these SCA adaptors on
> a single internal LVD/SE cable?

Why don't *you*, tell *us*?

>
> How could I make more efficient use of this hardware?

> (I have, in all, nine of these IBM 34L9195 drives)

What makes you think we know all IBM partnumbers by head?
Please use the model numbers (DMVS-09D).

>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> CIV


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