[PC_Support] New to SCSI, what's needed to use an internal DLT drive?

[Homer Whittaker]

A fortuitous topic: 
I am much less knowledgeable about SCSI than Damien and I am 
attempting to install a UMAX UTA-11 SCSI scanner to my Debian 
machine.
I have an internal scsi card (not an Adaptec 2940) installed, the 
card is attached to my computer with a small scsi connector, a 
5+/-  ft cable with a parallel connector on the other end going 
into a female parallel port on the scanner.
There is a short (12 inch ) cable going from the scanner body to 
the scanner cover.  The scanner body end is a printer type 
connector, but 1/2 inch or so shorter than a standard printer 
connector and the connector going into the cover is a parrallel 
connector.

I do not know anything about terminators or whatever.  Do they go 
in line with one of the cables on the scanner?  Perhaps one of 
you can tell from the UMAX UTA-11 parts list located at:

http://www.psds.com/partssearch/td-umax.htm

Homer Whittaker


On Wednesday 27 April 2005 03:34 pm, Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 April 2005 15:18, Damien McKenna wrote:
> > I'm looking at buying at least two internal Quantum TH5AA 
DLT-4000
> > drives and am not sure what to do regarding the hardware.  
I've got a
> > SCSI one card in one machine and will most likely have to get 
some for
> > the others.  Being a SCSI newbie I'm not sure where to start 
regarding
> > getting extras.  I'll need cables, but what sort?  Will I 
need
> > terminators?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> Welcome to the wonderful world of SCSI. ;)
> 
> From what I can tell, you always need a terminator.  If you're 
running older 
> SE SCSI, the drive can terminate the chain without any 
problems, if the drive 
> or device offers a 'terminate' jumper.  If not, you need an SE 
terminator for 
> the cable.
> 
> If you're using an LVD cable and have LVD drives (U80/160/320) 
then you must 
> have a terminator, either LVD/SE or just LVD.
> 
> Ouch, from the photos that looks like a 50-pin SCSI.  I'd 
imagine it can self 
> terminate and you just an old SCSI card like an Adaptec 2940UW 
which has 
> native 50-pin and a 50-pin cable.
> 
> Is it one of these?
> 
> 
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=73329&item=5770383936
> 
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