SCSI Terminology Help

[quantass]

I own a Seagate ST39216W SCSI internal HDD and am trying to get it installed into my Windows based PC. The adapter card is Adaptec AHA-2940UW. The drive will be the only scsi device in the system. From what I can tell the adapter requires no termination on the external scsi connector. The drive will be connecting internally to the 68-pin connector of the adapter.

The drive currently has the following J2 jumper settings:
- Terminator Enabled
- Terminate Power From Drive

There are a number of other jumper settings:
-Delay Motor Start
-Enable Motor Start
-Write Protect
-Parity Disable
-Term. Power to SCSI Bus
-Term. Power from SCSI Bus

Can you please explain what each one of these settings mean. Are my current jumper settings correct? I just want to install my single internal scsi drive to act as E: using FAT32. I'm using Win2000 SP3, with a 40 Gig IDE already installed.

The cable connecting to the drive does not have an opening to daisy chain another drive.

[lptech]

quantass-

You should read up from the manual that came with the SCSI Hard Drive. If you don't have one that came with it, then go to the Seagate website and download it from there! The manual should have all of the settings that you've mentioned and explanations on what each jumper setting is for!

Are you definite about not having to terminate the external SCSI connection? Is there a jumper that turns off the connection to the external connector? The only thing that I can advise you is to make sure that the ends of the SCSI chain are terminated or if the card is designed to auto-terminate that the card itself is setup correctly(check configuration jumpers on the SCSI card)!

Here's a link that should be helpful to you!

http://www.a2zcables.com/a2zcables.filereader?3dc37e1b10f6c144271e424d361d0 693+EN/userpages/37

Take a look at the link to see if your questions are brought up somewhere! Good luck.:)

lptech