3 Feb
2002
3 Feb
'02
6:35 a.m.
Richard Erlacher wrote:
A friend has come to me with a problem I don't
seem to be able to solve. He's
got a couple of Seagate ST32550W drives and a Mylex DAC960PD PCI controller, a
single-channel type, that just doesn't want to "see" the drives attached
to
it. I've verified that the drives work using a different controller, and the
diagnostic software from Mylex seems to suggest that the board itself thinks
it works OK, up to the point at which it is supposed to "see" attached drives.
That's where things fall apart.
Jerome Fine replies:
I just bought a "bunch" of ST32550N drives for only $ 20.00 each. I will be
buying
some more. Would the "N" drives solve the problem instead of the
"W"?
On eBay, they are sometimes even less.
It does not seem worth while to carry on with hardware that does not match
when the ST32550N drives are so inexpensive!
He wants to run this thing under Windows95 and
I've found him a set of what
appears to be the appropriate set of drivers, but the plug-n-play operation
doesn't seem to go well. His machine is an HP PC-Clone, a "Pavillion" with
a
2GB ide drive and about 64 MB of RAM. The computer is remarkably solid, from
what I've seen, having no particularly noticable problems aside from those
associated with the Mylex controller.
I am using the ST32550N drives under W95, W98 and a real PDP-11.
I could probably boot from them is needed, but I on W98 I will be using
a pair of 40 GByte EIDE drives. Can anyone recommend a good RAID 1
controller? I tried out one from EPOX (EP-DR02P3) and it does not work.
Have any of you guys had experience with the MYLEX
SCSI adapter involved here,
to the extent that you can suggest ways to make the plug-n-play features work
to fit the system?
Sorry - none at all!
But I could use some help in deciding how to backup the 40 GByte EIDE drive.