Adaptec 3940AUW, LVD drives and Linux

[Smith, Jeremy]

We use the drives extensively here in our PC's. Getting them to work with
the 3940AUW is very easy. If you have a terminated cable all that is left to
do is short jumper 6 on the drives. This jumper forces Single-Ended mode and
should be labeled accordingly on the bottom of the drive next to the jumper
block. 

Hope this works for you.
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Jeremy Smith
Systems Administrator
Bell & Howell MMT - Durham, NC
smithj at mps.bellhowell.com <mailto:smithj at mps.bellhowell.com> 
Jeremy.Smith at mmt.bellhowell.com
1400856 at mcipage.com
Day: 919-767-6530
Eve: 919-859-1645
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		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Shafik Yaghmour [mailto:shafik at nyct.net]
		Sent:	Tuesday, May 25, 1999 12:04 PM
		To:	aic7xxx at freebsd.org
		Subject:	Adaptec 3940AUW, LVD drives and Linux

			Okay, I have a Tyan Thunder 100 GX board which has
the Adaptec
		3940AUW built in I am attempting to use 2 IBM 9ES LVD drives
and I
		am having problems. I was not aware they where LVD when I
obtained them.
		After talking to a few people I have been informed that they
can not self
		terminate so I know part of my problems is termination.	I
was also told
		that the Adaptec 3940AUW may not fully support LVD drives
but I have been
		able to verify and format them as well as install DOS on
them, so the
		adapter can work with them but I am afraid that Linux may be
a bit more
		sensitive then DOS and once I fix the termination problem I
may have more
		problems. I need to make a decision on returing these drives
soon so I was
		hoping someone on this list could help me out.

			More specifically once I get to the section of the
install where
		is asks if I have a scsi adapter and I pick the Adaptec 2940
driver the
		system dies completely, the only option I have is to recycle
power.

		PS This is Red Hat 6.0 installation

		Thank You

	
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