I need some help......

[JimS]

Try changing the Seagate's address to 4. I believe that the 2091 scans from the higher address down.  This way it will see the bootable Quantum first.  One other thing to be aware of... I've seen some strange stuff with the 2091 and some drives, mainly the newer ones.. (newer compared to the 2091! ) They appear to partition & format correctly, but disappear on a reboot... I suspect this is due to the old firmware on the 2091. Too bad... cuz I've got a couple of Seagates that do exactly that...
(I just looked - they are ST12400N's!)

[JimS]

maxplunder wrote:
Is there anyway to get the ST12400N to work on here??

That I couldn't say for sure...  I understand there is a firmware upgrade to the 2091 card.... Rev 7.0.  There is also an upgrade to the Western Digital SCSI chip on the 2091 card. Either of these might work... but I don't know for sure.  I found a 1 gig drive that worked, so I just gave up on the ST12400Ns.

It's also possible that a different controller card would work.  Maybe someone using those drives will jump in and say what controller they are using.

[JimS]

I'm more convinced it's a problem with the 2091... either the firmware or the revision level of the WD chip. I just tried one of my drives on the SCSI port of my GVP 030 combo. It formatted fine & came back after a re-boot. Then I moved it over to the 2091 & it's bad... it shows up as a drive, but NDOS.

[JimS]

maxplunder wrote:
Rev 1.3 = Kickstart
Rev 6.6 = BOOT ROM Odd & Even Chips
00-04 = Western Digital Chip

I have almost that same configuration... with the exception of the kickstart ROM, which is 2.0.
If the Doommaster is right about the version levels of the 2091 firmware- you might try partitioning the drive with just one partition 1 Gig in size... That wastes half the drive, but it might be a worthwhile experiment...  
I found a rev 8 WD chip on a dead 3000 motherboard... when I get a chance, I'll try it on a spare 2091.
BTW, never low-level format a scsi drive, unless you're desperate. :-)

Jim S - in the computer biz since 1976 :-)

[JimS]

BTW, I just tried the Rev 8 WD chip on that drive with a 2091 and Rev 6.1 firmware... it still fails, so I guess it's time to look at new ROMS,  try software hut...  or a different controller altogether...  
Hope you give  the thread another shot, and ingnore the flamers, and TRue Relocation Program participants. :-)