68 pin SCSI in Amiga

[amigadave]

I have just recently purchased several 68pin & 80pin SCSI hdd's of 36GB & 74GB sizes to use as replacement drives for old failing and noisy 9.1GB full height hdd's, but I have been having a heck of a time getting the cabling and terminators set up right so the Toaster/Flyer Tools can see the drives, so they can be formatted to be used as Flyer drives.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I have adapters and all different kinds of terminators, but still no luck, even with LVD terminators when using LVD u320 drives.

Help!

[amigadave]

Note: I get my adaptors from eBay.

Here's the one I'm using:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SCA-80-to-SCSI-1-2-3-68-50-Pin-Converter-Card-Adapter_W0QQitemZ310147836256QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Cables_Adapters?hash=item4836406960&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C293%3A2%7C294%3A50

I have the same adapter and have been able to get some 4GB hdd's to work on a Warp Engine 040 accelerator SCSI-2 controllers.  I can't seem to get it to work on my CSPPC SCSI-2 wide controller, or the Flyer 50pin SCSI controllers.  I have tried all types of termination, both LVD/SE and non-LVD active terminators.  Still no luck.

I now have 3x 73GB 80pin SCA hdd's and 3x 36GB 68pin U320 hdd's plus 1x 73GB 68pin U320 hdd and have yet been able to get any of these large hdd's recognized on any of my SCSI controllers using both 50pin or 68pin cables and all types of terminators and jumper combinations on the drives themselves.

I am really stumped as to why I am having so much trouble and see now why some other members have cursed so loudly about having SCSI configuration problems.  This is my first experience with such difficulty in getting SCSI drives working.

@Zac67,

The drives and terminators I am trying to use are all marked LVD/SE and I have enabled the SE jumpers on the drives.  The first terminators I tried did not have the LVD/SE designation written on them, so I ordered and received and tried the LVD/SE terminators and have seen no difference.

Very frustrating!