> It sounds like the drive is asleep,
> sometimes drives are shipped jumpered not to spin
> on power on . The adaptec card can send a wakeup signal
> to the drive when going through the detection phase
> (off the top of my head this is not the default for the card)
Umm. I did set the spin-up parameter in the card config to TRUE
for this device...
> Can you try and set the card to send a wake up signal to
> the drive ID in the card setup . (control A ) to get in to this
> when the adaptec banner flashes on screen.
Yep...maybe it's something else...
///Peter
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