On Mon, 29 May 2000, Gary Nielson wrote:
> I have ordered a VA Linux 420 system with a 10x/4x/32x max CD-RW SCSI
> Drive and Narrow SCSI Kit. Right now I am running an old Dell Dimsension
> XPS Pro 200n with an external HP SureStore Tape 2000 with an AHA-2940
> single PCI SCSI Intl.
>
> Having never had to deal with more than one SCSI device before, I am
> looking for advice on how to configure my system. How do I install the
> external HP SureStore? Do I install the PCI SCSI Intl card and will it
> conflict with the Narrow SCSI Kit? Presumably the CD-RW drive is
> terminated, so what will I have to do to get both devices working
> together? Do I just simply slap in the PCI SCSI card and set the ID on
> the back of the SureStore to something other than 3 (where it is set
> now) and not 0 or 7? I suspect it is more complicated than that. (The VA
> Linux 420 has 5 PCI slots).
>
> Any advice appreciated. I am feeling kind of dumb about this.
>
> Gary
>
Gary,
As long as the SCSI card on the new system has an external
connector, the easy way to handle it is to connect the tape drive to the
same SCSI card as the CD-RW drive. As long as the tape drive and the
CD-RW drive don't have the same ID, and do not have ID 7, about the only
thing you may have to do is turn off termination on the SCSI card. About
the only time you might have problems is when backing up to tape, and
burning a CD at the same time. But you may have problems with that even
with the tape drive and CD-RW on seperate cards.
If you need to run two cards, you shouldn't run into any problems.
If they were both ISA cards, it would be a different story, but the PCI
cards should get along. About the only conflict would be if they both
have a SCSI BIOS on them, and it gets mapped into the same address space.
But the card for the tape drive probably doesn't have a BIOS on it anyway.
One thing you didn't say - does the new system have SCSI hard
drives? If so, and if they are on the same card, then make sure the tape
drive isn't on the same address as the hard drives. SCSI isn't that hard
to set up, as long as you remember to use good cables, and remember to
only terminate the ends of the chain. A SCSI card with an internel and
externel drive is not on the end, but in the middel of the chain.
Mikkel
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