Flyer Drives not showing on Workbench screen

[T3000]

@T3000,
What 18gig drives are you using and how do you have them converted to 50pin SCSI of the Flyer board.

Fortunately, I purchased the drive bay used with listed drives and a malfunctioning on/off switch from a working environment that was being parted out.  The drive bay was professionally set up. I started with three drives stacked on the desk while setting my system up. Not bad for $250.

The 18 gig drive is a 68 pin, Seagate Cheetah ST318404LW
The adapters are stickered with the word ACTIVE and look like this

edit ~
hmmm...   after putting the case back on I seem to have lost FB0:
The drive is showing up with scsi inquire but not in the Flyer HD tools or in the flyer project interface. Also the ghosted icon reads FB0:\0\0\0\0 where as the ghosted icons for the other working flyer drives read FA0:FLY\0   FA1:FLY\0  etc.
sigh...

[Pyromania]

The IDE/CF adapters are pretty cheap on ebay, like a few bucks, but the SCSI/IDE adapters are considerably more expensive (~50 bucks). Anyone know of a cheaper source?

And does anyone here have a Flyer setup using CF/IDE -> IDE/SCSI -> Flyer combo?

Yes they have.


http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=47883&highlight=Flyer

[rcgrabbag]

Thanks for the link. Very informative thread. Those SCSI/IDE adapters are expensive. I'm currently using three refurbed 50GB Seagate drives I got for $19 each, but they do make things run hotter. Incidentally, I got all the drives sorted out and are now all on ID 0 on chains A, B & C (FA0, FB0 and FC0).