Help .....Adaptec 2940UW SCSI problem.

[Wain]

Assuming that your drive is functioning properly, it's quite likely a termination issue.  Is your drive at the end of a chain? Is the drives termination enabled?  Is the 2940UW's termination set properly also?

Are you certain that the drive in question is functioning properly?
Drives can ID to the host card and still not work when they're broken.

[Wain]

As you know.. Adaptec doesn't do Tech support unless you
buy directly from them and have a receit.

This is news to me.  I've always used Adaptec SCSI controllers in my PC's, never bought any from the company, (2 of them I got on ebay), and I've never had any issue receiving support from them.  Last time I called them was about a year ago on an OEM 19160 card I got online, they gave me outstanding support.

[Wain]

If you have an ide disk on your computer, then you can't enable the scsi bios.  If you boot with the scsi disk, you can't use IDE with it.  If you have an ide disk, do not boot from the scsi but from the ide.

With Windows 98 and later I have never had any trouble using both IDE and SCSI on a single machine, I boot with SCSI and have always Used Adaptec cards (2940UW, 2940UWPro, 19160).  You may run into conflicts between the controllers, but they are almost always resolvable.



Also, are you sure that the drive itself is functioning?
A bad HD can still ID to the system, and just not work.