weedeewee wrote on 2023-11-07, 17:37:If you're seeing this as a pissing contest, you're just projecting.
I'm just trying to keep the facts. Stating that Force SE swi […]
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ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-11-07, 17:07:
weedeewee wrote on 2023-11-07, 16:51:
Force SE does not switch the drive into 8 bit narrow mode.
You should know that if you actually know what you are talking about.
No but you know exactly what I mean though.
Im not really interested in having a pissing contest kind of conversation with you about it. You can either offer up some advice to the op to help him out of im just not interested.
If you're seeing this as a pissing contest, you're just projecting.
I'm just trying to keep the facts. Stating that Force SE switches the device into narrow mode is false. plain & simple.
teh_Foxx0rz wrote on 2023-11-06, 16:04:
OPs choices are simple, get yourself an U2W or UW controller with corresponding wide cable and terminators
or
and this would depend on whether the drive actually wants to work in narrow mode.
Get a Wide cable with two suitable terminators, one for each end of the cable. and add a wide to narrow adapter to the cable to which the controller gets attached.
or
and this would also depend on whether the drive actually wants to work in narrow mode.
A wide to narrow adapter which has high byte termination.
with the last two options being bit of a gamble since it depends on the drives willingness to go into narrow mode.
Thats fair enough...
Maybe I should have said Force SE jumper will set the drive to a mode that is compatible with the rest of the hardware. Provided the drive can do 8bit over a SE channel.
Why would you recommend he get an U2W or UW controller to control a disk we already know is SCSI-3 SCSI Ultra160? - That infomation is wrong. It will work, but it doesnt match the disk he has does it.
Wide cable and terminators...
You have already told me you cant mix the two, and you are the one who wants the facts. If youre going to call something something then call it what it is. I mean I have a SCSI-2 drive on a 68pin cable rated for U160...
He doesnt want it working in narrow mode, or SE come to that, he just wants it working and has the hardware he has.
The controller card itself will terminate one end of the cable... Why would he need to terminators? Remember you are the one who wants to be accurate here. So what does that mean?
I think if you read back then we have already established
I already suggested such an adapter, he wants to use the drive caddy he has.
The drive is U160