scsi questions

[imbest123]

I have one of the older models of medea video raid drives that holds 4 drives. I thought it was broken after my dog chewed up something inside. I just found out that the thing is fine but I was using the hard drives as normal ones. Each one was 30gb and I had the jumper settings changed. my question is: Do I have to change the jumper settings back to what they were? also if i do where do they have to be set?

[bailey]

you should need to set them back the way they were.
the jumpers are the i/o address for each drive.
the controler is by default 7 and each drive can be anything from 0 to 7
there are 3 sets of jumpers and they are set to a binary number 1-2-and 4, so tha t if all 3 jumpers were on it would be a 7, but you can't use that one caust it is the controler.

[imbest123]

Is there a website or someplace I can go to check where they have to be?

[bailey]

you can number them any thing you want
it don't matter which is which as long as each one has its own address, the controler is always a 7

also check tha the treminators are still in place, one at each end.
scsi is a complex thing to set up, but once its done its good.
the addressing is what matters the most.
as you said it was set up as a raid and you moved the jumpers,
so it is difficult to tell you which type of reid it was.
do you still have the controller card ?

[imbest123]

Ya I still have the controller card. So ill just randomly asssign the jumpers and plug the drives in.
*edit*
also can i install windows xp on there and not use an ide drive?

[bailey]

yes you can, but you need to do the setup for the scsi controler first and then set the boot order to boot from the scsi drive

[imbest123]

Ok thank you Bailey. You were great help. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

[bailey]

no problem hope you get it working