8knxp ultra rev 2.0

Im having some trouble setting up scsi on my machine can anyone point me in
the direction of a manual for the controller or give me some advice. Thanks

Mr-Reece,
What is the problem?
List your particular questions about SCSI.
Others might learn from your questions and their answers.

E-mail me direct if you wish...

Jeff

"Mr-Reece" wrote in message
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Im having some trouble setting up scsi on my machine can anyone point me
in the direction of a manual for the controller or give me some advice.
Thanks

Make sure your SCSI is turned on in the BIOS. There should be no need to do
anything in the SCSI BIOS portion but if you must then during boot press
CTRL/A and make your desired changes. On the drive portion, set the ID to
the appropriate number and see to it that there is a termination on the
cable.

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Pavel


"Mr-Reece" wrote in message
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Im having some trouble setting up scsi on my machine can anyone point me
in the direction of a manual for the controller or give me some advice.
Thanks

Well i cant select create raid fron the menu, the only option i can select
is spare. Ive tried to change the scsi id on the drives because they are
both set at 15 but it doesnt work. Any ideas??

Mr-Reece,
I'm sending you a couple manuals via direct e-mail. The message will be
digitally signed and be almost 2M. I hope these will answer your questions.

Jeff

"Mr-Reece" wrote in message
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Well i cant select create raid fron the menu, the only option i can select
is spare. Ive tried to change the scsi id on the drives because they are
both set at 15 but it doesnt work. Any ideas??

Mr-Reece,
I received a notice that my e-mail to you was unsuccessful. Yes, I removed
the obvious.

The manuals you need to look at a

1. Look on your motherboard CD (Other/SCSI/Raid_ap/hostraid_ug.pdf).

2. Website URL Link
http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard...7902_001_e.pdf

I believe all the questions you may have can be answered in these two
manuals. But the information is difficult to understand.

By the way, you change the SCSI ID of the drives by changing the jumpers on
the hard drive itself. To setup two SCSI drives in a Raid array, they must
have different SCSI IDs and must be on the same SCSI Channel. The Adaptec
AIC-7902W Chipset on your motherboard is dual channel. That means both of
the hard drives will be operating on the same channel and using different
jumper configurations.

It is easiest to setup SCSIRaid with a new installation of the OS. On page
43 of 72 (page 5-3) of the HostRaid User's Guide is an explanation of how to
install SCSIRaid on an existing system.

Good Luck

Jeff


"Mr-Reece" wrote in message
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Well i cant select create raid fron the menu, the only option i can select
is spare. Ive tried to change the scsi id on the drives because they are
both set at 15 but it doesnt work. Any ideas??

You can not have the same ID on both drives. It's very unusual to use ID15
unless you have whole bunch of other SCSI equipment using the other ID's.
The reason the RAID setting can not be set is because only one drive is seen
or more probably none should have been seen since there is a conflict with
ID15.
Depending on the manufacturer of the drive the place to set the ID could be
in different places but almost on all of them there are at least 4 sets of
pins or more. Usually with no jumpers on the pins the drive ID will be set
to 0. The next drive should have one jumper on the appropriate set to make
it ID 1.
There are also other pin sets that are used for termination and other
various things. Get the settings from the manufacturer's web site to tell
you exactly how they should be set. The may even be diagram on the drive
it's self.

--
Pavel


"Mr-Reece" wrote in message
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Well i cant select create raid fron the menu, the only option i can select
is spare. Ive tried to change the scsi id on the drives because they are
both set at 15 but it doesnt work. Any ideas??

Thanks for thr help, ill work on it over the weekend and let you all know
how o got on.

Please do. I like to know how it ended.

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Pavel


"Mr-Reece" wrote in message
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Thanks for thr help, ill work on it over the weekend and let you all know
how o got on.

Got it sorted now, set the jumpers on the disks and moved both disks on to
the same channel and it was straight forward from there. I didn't realise
the disks had to be on the same channel. Thanks for the help.