Installing 18.2 gig drives

[Dale Edman]

I recently acquired two drives, bith 18.2 gig but different manufacturers.

One is: Compaq Model #BB01811C9C
Second one: IBM Model #DNES-318350

Is there some special setting that I need to use on these in order to use them in the cage on a Netserver? The cage is currently populated with 2-9.1 gig drives and 4-4 gig drives. I am using a Netserver 5/100 cage and case, but the motherboard has been replaced with a standard motherboard and there are not modifications elsewhere. other than the 2904 Adaptec SCSI card.

The drives spin up and after a short time they spin back down and the lights go off completely in that cage.

Do I have bad drives or is the cage looking for something in particular. None of the HP drives have any jumpers on them, so I do not know what is needed.

Thanks in advance.

[Dale Edman]

I just wanted you to know I figured it out. The drives have to be forced to being single ended. Once I set the jumpers, they spun up and stayed spinning. I was then able to format them.