CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo SCSI Test

[Paul Taylor]

The SCSI card BIOS does not show the drives.

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From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Brian Kelsay
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 1:14 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo SCSI Test

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Speaking of SCSI...I have a two SCSI Plextor CD drives, one is a CD-RW
and one is Ultrawide 40X CD-ROM. I'm using an Adaptech 2940 SCSI card,
the two IBM SCSI driver are recognized but the CD drives are not. One
uses the 50-pin and one uses 68-pin (as do the IBM drives).

I've tweaked and tweaked the Adaptech SCSI BIOS and the drives are not
recognized.

Both CD drives have <10 hours of use in the past 4 years so they can't
be broken.

Someone know an easy way for me to tell if the drives are broken or not,
it seems improbable that both "break" while in storage for 3 years.
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Can you see the drives under the SCSI card BIOS?  When the PC is booting
there is usually an option to adjust the SCSI BIOS settings, f2, f1, f10
or esc.

Brian Kelsay