Michael Baeuerle <michael.baeuerle (AT) stz-e (DOT) de> writes:

So it sounds as if all that knows is it may, or may not, be LVD.


The DDS3 is not used. It's internal.

The DLT2000's are part of VLS DLT's jukeboxes. One of the DLT7000's is
standalone. All SE.

The other changer is a Dell PowerVault 120T DLT7000 which is a rebadged
ADIC FastStor/ Quantum.


The Dell specs:

<http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/adic7000/ug/specs.htm>

says:

SCSI-2 Fast/Wide, differential, 68-pin



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David Lesher <wb8foz (AT) panix (DOT) com> wrote:
That thing is 100% HVD.

I've used those autoloaders before. They came with their own SCSI card when purchased from
Dell.

Here are better docs from dell, they mention the adaptec 2944 card:

http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...0/ug/notes.htm

Cydrome Leader <presence (AT) MUNGEpanix (DOT) com> writes:


Ugh. So either I cooked the LVD drives or not; but that card won't
work. And I passed up a bunch of PCI SCSI cards at the last hamfest, and
now, I don't recall if any others I have are SE/LVD.






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David Lesher <wb8foz (AT) panix (DOT) com> wrote:
the drives are probably OK- I'm not aware of any SCSI bus mixups that
actually broke a drive.

The 53cxx chips were originally by NCR, then Symbios, then LSI,
so all names may historically apply for the drivers, device names,
man pages & documentation.

And "device id 0xf": is that the PCI ID or SCSI ID?
(both PCI and SCSI parameters are reported there).
The SCSI BUS id for the HA is usually 7,
even for wide, for compatibility with narrow devices.

I'm still trying to scrape up a LVD card to talk to those Compaq
drives....

So now I'm wondering... Are any SCSI devices really LVD only?

I found a paper on the SCSI Trade Assoc site
<28b7h6-sf2.ln1 (AT) micha (DOT) freeshell.org> and it seemed to imply that LVD was
a superset of SE; if any device on a LVD chain pulled a h DIFFSENS low,
all devices on the chain would follow along to the land of SE.

If so, I can tolerate the lower speed of SE & stop looking for a LVD card.
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try:
<http://www.scsita.org/aboutscsi/SCSI_Termination_Tutorial.html>
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