OK, first things first. I have a dual 750 Pentium III with 1GB of RAM and a Tekram 440BX MoBo. My video cards are a Voodoo3 and a S4 Savage. I use a Pyro DV 1394 port card and an I-net 1Gbit Ethernet adaptor. My SCSI controller is a Tekram DC-390U2Bsingle channel Ultra-2 wide with a max transfer of 80MBps. External peripherals include a pair of Sony monitors, a ScanTech scanner, a Sony DV deck, a SoundBlaster USB Extigy sound card, and a massive set of Altec-Lansing pro studio monitors. There are 4 IBM SCSI “DNES” series 9GB drives in a case on the external proton of the SCSI controller and there are 3 “73LZX” series SCSI’s inside the server case for video capture, which is where the problem begins.
Now, the problem is with the SCSI drives and their controller. The system ran perfectly up to a week and a half ago until an Ultra-160
Cheetah drive tanked and I lost a great deal of video/work. I sent it off for warranty replacement and am still waiting for its return. In the mean time, I bought a set of three Ultra-160 IBM’s that are also 10k rotational speed with super fast latency and so on..but they will
>not work on the SCSI chain with the older Ultra-2 wide drives on the other end of the controller. If I boot up with all of the drives in the
SCSI chain, the OS sits at the post screen until the cows come home. If I boot with only one set of the SCSI’s it goes like a charm, give or
take a few pauses. The drives all show up in the bios and the FDISK utility can see them as well as the hardware manager within the OS (if
>one set or the other is loaded). I have all of the SCSI ID’s correct and suspect that it has to do with the termination or the controller,
but have run out of troubleshooting ideas. If anyone has some ideas out where to go from here, it would be greatly appreciated.
