On 01/26/2020 01:13 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 1/25/20 12:57 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
I have dug out an old SCSI hard drive from 1997 that may have some interesting stuff, most especially the source code for the SGI Iris flight sim demo. I have a Linux system with an Adaptec 2940 (aic7880) that has two connectors on it. It SEEMS from some probing that the 50-pin IDC connector on the top of the board is single-ended SCSI (it seems to have mostly grounds on one row of pins). Same for the drive, which is a Quantum ProDrive LPS. The drive spins up and does some seeking right after power-on, so it sounds like it is working. But, I can't seem to find that the drive is being recognized by the aic7xxx driver. So, looking at /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/## I see the device addresses all show just the negotiation settings, and /proc/scsi/scsi just shows my SATA devices but not the real SCSI ones.

I believe Adaptec 2940s were all Single Ended. I /think/ the differential cards that they made had a different number.

Go into the cards BIOS (firmware?) and poke around. Does the card see the drive?

Well, I set up another machine with a different Adaptec 2940 and was able to read two SCSI drives that had not spun in 22 years! Unfortunately, I could not find the files I was looking for, but I backed up the entire contents anyway.

Jon

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