scsi novice

[Charlee Mollison]

I have recently purchased a hard drive not realizing that it was SCSI. I would prefer to work out how to use it, than to be told that I cannot return it (eBay purchase). I have two questions.
How do I determine or find the SCSI ID setting number?

Can I set this up as my Primary Master with an AT HDD as the slave?

If anyone can help, it would be much appreciated.

[Uwe Zessin]

SCSI ID depends on the disk drive hardware. Some of them have the ability to set it on the drive - others receive the ID through a backplane interconnect. Do you know the disk drive modell number?

Unfortunately you cannot mix parallel SCSI and ATA disk drives on the same bus. I have seen adapters to connect an ATA disk to a SCSI bus, but I have not heard about the other way.

[Marino Meloni_1]

you need a scsi controller in order to use this hd, the scsi id is set via jumpers on the hdd itself, you can also avoid to set a scsi id, and then it will be recognized as id0, having just a hdd, you can avoid to care about it.

anyway when it will be connected to a scsi controller, at the boot time, the enquiry string of the disk will appear with scsi id.

You can have on your system scsi and ATA disks, you have to choise the priority of boot in the mother board bios

marino

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

master/slave only refers to the relation between two ata drives.

greetings,

Michael