SCSI III External chasis quandry

[J-Golden]

Hey happy campers!  This is what I'm hacking today with some success.

I took a SCSI III Aray out of an IBM SERVER (hot swapable, technacly) that holds 6 drives.  Heres the prob.  My PPC card sees only one drive and it keeps spouting something about serial error at me.

Now I will admit that there was several other cables hanging off the thing and one of them looks to be a serial-esque cable.  Can I not use this at all without that data handler type connection.

This is over my head so you hard core techies could be a big help to me.

TANKZ! in advance!!!!!

[J-Golden]

Sparky wrote:
Hi there,

Now does this array have a RAID controller or is it just a bunch of drives ?

it's a chasis that sldes the drives in and out.  It WAS hooked up to a raid card but you could set it up as individual drives as well.....

How are you cabling it up ?  Do you have the termination correct ? (both ends!)

I believe the termination is correct because my internal hard drives are seen fine (they are sitting next to the others as I don't have exactly everything I need for the external connection).

Got good cables ?

They worked fine before.  and like I said, my original HDs on the same chain are read fine...

Regards

Mark

Thanks for the run down and I hope the description of the rack mount like system helps.....

J-Golden