sunaiac wrote:I have a very stupid question, but i can't seem to find a clear answer.
I decided to go full SCSI on my 486s, and got myself sev […]
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I have a very stupid question, but i can't seem to find a clear answer.
I decided to go full SCSI on my 486s, and got myself several of those (same model, not at that price of course) : http://discountechnology.com/Seagate-ST318406 … CSI-Hard-Drives
I have adaptec cards, all in 50 pins, either 2940 PCI for the PCI 486 or 2842A VLB for the ... well VLB one.
I obviously have no troubles with the speed limitation at 20mb/s, but i'm puzzled about that LVD stuff.
It seems it should work with a lvd certified adapter. Could anyone point me an ebay listing with an adapter that is sure to work ? I have 68 and 50 pins wires, but since I also got the CD burners to plug, i'd prefer a HDD side adapter.
Thanks !
edit : there's a "Force Single Ended" jumper on the HDD if it can help.
So the time for me has come to start building my 486s ...
And with that come the first problems 😁
So here we are, I have the following setup :
HOT Shuttle 433
AMD DX5 WriteBack
S3 Trio in PCI1 IRQ9
Adaptect AHA2940U2W in PCI4 (will not go in others, because of CPU cooler) IRQ11
All IDE disabled in the bios except the thing that looks fior IDE cards on PCI cause it can't be disabled
On the Adapted (ID7), I try to plug a 18GB LVD HDD (ID0, 50-68 pins adapter with active termination)) and a 50 pins CDROM (ID3).
Nothing works. CD alone, HDD alone, etc ... card does not detect any drives.
I think the best setup would be card --> cd (term off) --> hdd (with active termination adapter). But no setup works. I don't have a jumper on the "Force single ended" pins.
So where do I start ? (mini jumpers ordered and coming)
If I could at least get the CD recognized ... I tried just the CD on the last point of my SCSI cable with termination on, even that is not recognized by the card ...
I can go in card's bios. SCSI bios is enabled, CDROM bootable too.
any ideas ? I'd like this one to work before takling the VLB 😀
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