On 2002-10-10, Bill Moran scribbled: # So ... before I send these drives back to Seagate and complain, # does anyone have experience with these 80-68 pin converters to # tell me whether it could be causing the problem or not? We # got them for less than $10 - should we buy the more expensive # converters? We've tried 2 converters/ 2 drives in all possible # combinations and it always detects as 40.
Do you know if the 80-pin to 68-pin adapters were meant for LVD devices? The drive will only communicate up to 160MBps only if the entire chain is using LVD rather than SE (Ultra Wide SCSI is the highest SE will go). My guess is that the converter is causing the drive to kick down out of LVD mode and down to SE mode, thus capping it at 40MBps. You will probably need a converter that is meant for LVD devices rather in order to get the drive to kick into LVD mode. -- Linh Pham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek http://closedsrc.org closedsrc.org Every solution breeds new problems To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
