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Hard-core computer hardware geeks - Please help!
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:48 AM
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I have an NT box, I took out the SCSI HDs and replaced them with IDE ones (because Office Max doesn' t carry SCSI HDs and my drives were shot). I have a SCSI DAT drive for a backup, but now NT will NOT see the DAT drive. On bootup the BIOS sees it, but NT refuses to believe it. Suggestions? Besides killing myself, that is...  It' s an old HP 4/8GB DAT drive, HP' s site wasn' t much help.
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RE: Hard-core computer hardware geeks - Please help!
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:55 AM
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How many IDE drives do you have? Is it possible that you have the DAT addressed to something that one of your IDE drives thinks its using? I have limited knowledge of SCSI but I have had addressing issues with them before.
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RE: Hard-core computer hardware geeks - Please help!
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:57 AM
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check the SCSI ID of the DAT drive physically on the drive, usually by jumpers like the master/slave designations on IDE HD' s. Then go into NT and set/verify the SCSI ID of the DAT to what you physically set it to. I would suggest ' 0' since it is the only SCSI device in your box now.
Beyond that, I am of no help.
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RE: Hard-core computer hardware geeks - Please help!
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:06 PM
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I' m not too proficient in SCSI either...
Could it be that now that I use IDE cables for the HD, there' s no SCSI termination? I prolly need one of those terminators that go on the end of the cable...
PHUQ.
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RE: Hard-core computer hardware geeks - Please help!
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:13 PM
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yes. what order were your SCSI devices in from system board through devices? If the DAT was first from the sys board and the drives came after the DAT then a SCSI terminator is needed.
Is the DAT internal or external?
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RE: Hard-core computer hardware geeks - Please help!
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:17 PM
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Internal, and it came first.
I have to see if I can find a supply store close to me now... DAMN.
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RE: Hard-core computer hardware geeks - Please help!
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:54 PM
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Don' t panic and go running to the store just yet. There may be a resistor pack on the bottom or back of the drive that just needs to be moved into position, or a dip switch setting that needs to be changed, in order to terminate at the tape drive. Have a look at that first.
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