Need advice on SCSI drive

[Falcon51]

Hello,

I just purchased a used Seagate Cheetah 15k SCSI hard drive for my Dell 530 Precision workstation. I have a SCSI drive now; actually it's a Seagate Cheetah too just a different model.

I tried just adding the new drive in but the computer would not recognize either drive. So I set it up with just the new drive and still don't get a ready prompt, just F1 to retry or F2 for setup. I have the BIOS to auto recognize any new drive. I'm running Windows XP Professional.

My computer has a single Xeon 1.8 GHz processor and 512MB of PC800 ECC RAM.

Other then the drive being bad is there some setting I’m missing? The drive model is ST336753LW U320 15K 68PIN DELL.
Oh I forgot to mension I have all the jumpers set like my current drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Midknyte]

you usually need to set a scsi ID. You cannot have 2 drives with the same scsi ID.
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/iguides/scsi/100148125b.pdf

Typically, the first drive is set to SCSI0, so your second drive could be set to SCSI1.

I don't have a 530, so you'll have to give more details. is the scsi card built into the motherboard or not? if not, you'd have to go into the scsi card's bios to configure the drive. setting the motherboard bios to autodetect won't do anything if you have an addon scsi card.

[Falcon51]

OK I notice that the new drive ID is set to default.
So do I need to set both J6 and J5 jumper pins to ID 1?
What about the J2 jumper do I need to mess with that at all?
Yes the controler is built into the motherboard.
Here are the specs.


http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j93/godsclay/Screen.jpg

[Midknyte]

I think you only need to set J6, but it wouldn't hurt to set J5 either. I don't think you have the cable for the J5 like it mentions in the manual.

Determine which SCSI IDs are already being used in the system and then
assign this disc drive a SCSI ID that isn’t already being used. Use the J6
connector located on the front of the drive to set the SCSI ID

If you have an LW model drive, some systems provide a cable designed
to connect to the J5 jumper block on the drive to remotely set the ID. You
can connect this cable to J5 and use the host-provided remote switch to
set the SCSI ID. This J5 connector is not present on LC model drives

I'd leave J2 as is.

[Falcon51]

I tried a bunch of different settings but still don't get a ready prompt. I'm sending the drive back for replacement, hopefully the next one will be good.

[Midknyte]

What do you mean by a "ready prompt"? If it's a blank drive, you have to load an OS on it. You would boot from your XP disc and reinstall. If XP doesn't see the drive, you should try adding the scsi drivers via floppy with the f6 option.

Did you check the scsi bios or not? does the old drive appear in the scsi bios? That board might have onboard scsi, but that doesn't mean it is a native part of the chipset.

[Falcon51]

OK, I got the replacement drive today and was able to install it using the ID 1 jumper. I see the drive in the SCSI BIOS utility and was able to verify the drive has no problems; I also did a Low Level format. So far so good. When I reboot the computer I see both drives in the start-up screen before Windows loads. Once I'm in windows I am unable to see the drive in My Computer. I can see it in the device manager.
It says the drive is working properly.
Any Idea why I can't see the drive in My Computer.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j93/godsclay/DeviceManager.jpg

[Midknyte]

did you partition and format the drive in disk management yet?

[BipolarBill]

I also did a Low Level format. A low-level format is almost never necessary. Besides, it takes forever. Normal and quick formats are fine.

Midknyte is right - initialize any new drives or just assign a drive letter in Disk Management.

[Falcon51]

Thanks to all your help I was able to format the drive with disk management and get it working.

[Midknyte]

FYI, the same rule applies to SATA or IDE drives.

[Falcon51]

Yes, thanks. My ignorance of Windows XP and SCSI drives has been diminished a little more form this experience.