Q: Hi, I try
I 37.6gb IBM Ultrastar drive into work . We just a new cable and it came with an “LVD” terminator. The old cable said SE / LVD 160 on her and had a terminator with two marks built into it.
Now when we try to boot, the Adaptec card says Insufficient SE termination . We have a cable / termination problem? Should we buy a new terminator?
Thanks!
Re:I found documentation for a Hitachi/IBM here: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/146z10/146z10jum.htm
What I would do first, is enable Auto Spin and disable Delay Start and Auto Start Delay. See if that gets the drive to spin up. I hope you're not doing this over the phone with her, that would be extra frustrating :confused:
SCSI drives cannot fail, it's completely impossible 
*nose grows* If the drive came with the computer, then the computer's own warranty is probably what's applicable. If the drive was bought aftermarket then you could try IBM/HitachiGST for warranty, I guess.
Re:MechBgon you fixed it — we switched it to the LVD connector. Now we have a new problem. The drive returns "start unit request failed" This is an IBM UltraStar… is it maybe dead?
Was purchased in 2000, Nov… Do they have 5 year warranties?
Re:You're not supposed to have your cable on the SE connector of the card. What card is this?
Re:ugh.. To be honest, I don't know how to set jumpers on SCSI drives.. I think its set to ID1 and I have no idea about auto termination.. would that be a card BIOS option?
Re:Is the card set to auto-termination? Is the terminator end of the cable attached to the drive? Have you checked the jumpers on the drive?
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