Adaptec 29160N

[pk at physicist.net]

Please excuse me for having been offtopic. Just thought I should let anyone interested know that my problem with the 29160N stems from the cabling & the terminator, which I've stated below, but there actually wasn't anything wrong with the cable or the active terminator; it just was the wrong type of cable and terminator. Apparently an lvd cable & active terminator isn't enough for ultra 160, you need special ultra 160 lvd cable & active terminator... If anyone's interested. So my problem with the card detecting the drive's capabilities at boot is solved; now I've got another "problem": Why does the driver report 80Mb/sec when the card reports 160Mb/sec at boot?

Best regards

Peter K

I wrote:
> Hmmm.... I wasn't thorough enough when i said that there is no support in the driver; there /is/ support for all ultra 160 adapters from adaptec as someone on this list pointed out (thanks!). %-6
> And the hardware works just fine, except the cable or the active terminator. So go ahead and buy it, just be sure to double-check the cabling and the terminator. :-)
> 
> However there's still one questions remaining: What is the sequencer code for (what does it do?)?


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