No-show SCSI HD's in A3000

[Sandman]

Hi,

My SCSI speak is weak so please bear with me.

I've tried a number of 80pin SCSI HD's in my A3000 via 80pin-50pin adapter and can't get any of them recognized.  I've even tried another adapter.  Some are LVD/SE Drives.

I've tried:

A3000 SCSI->HD->Terminator....HD led stays light/no boot
A3000 SCSI->HD...................... Boots from floppy but drive not recognized by HDTOOLBOX

All drives are over 4gb - I thought that they would at least be recognized!

I even tried a 4GB 50pin Seagate Barracuda drive.... no go.

The only drive that I can get to work is a old 20mb SCSI using same cable and a terminator on the end.

HELP! PLEASE!

Thanks,
Tim

[Sandman]

Thanks so much for the concise explanations!!! I really appreciate it.

Another route am considering checking into (I have done this in my WarpEngine A4000) is to try to use a CF card and exliminate the HD's all together.  The one HD that I was trying to use was a 80pin Compaq SCSI 15K rpm drive - sounded like a 747 @ takeoff!

What do you think of using a SCSI->IDE->CF solution?  Workable or not?

Thanks!
Tim