Atto Scsi Ul2d Controller Card

locomo10 · Post by **locomo10** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:54 am

Hi all,
I bought this card:
http://www.compdisk.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 00pw&ID=32
as un upgrade to an old Tekram SCSI .
(that and and a refurbed 15k Cheetah)
But it doesn't even post on my venrable BP6.
I'm running at 100 fsb and tried the first two (closest to AGP)
PCI slots with no luck. Im running Win XP on my BP6 (But it shouldn't matter w/out (posting).
However it does post and even loads driver on my Win 2000 Dell.
machine at work. I've tried PNP in the BIOS off and on to no avail. Do I try manually changing IRQ's etc. now or just send it back?
Thanx
loco

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:51 pm

hmm

try every option first and then send it back

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:53 pm

actually to be honest

i'd get an adaptec

adaptec is universally the best card for SCSI

they been around longer and have perfected their hardware and drivers

go adaptec.. there is WAY more support

adaptec is all i'll ever use

locomo10 · Post by **locomo10** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:13 am

Yeah, but this card was less than $40 and does 80 Mbytes/sec
(when it works).
Anyway I pulled all the other PCI cards out,
disconnected the HPT drive, a USB device and (gasp) a CPU .
I changed the Delayed Transaction and the PNP flags in
the BIOS and tried the SCSI card in all the slots.
This card and the BP6 are supposed to be
2.1 PCI compliant, but they ain't playing together.
I guess I'll muck with:
PIRQ_0 Use IRQ No. ~ PIRQ_3 Use IRQ No:
next but this is starting to remind me of when I first got this
board back in OCT '99.
loco

PDR60 · Post by **PDR60** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 1:23 am

Get on Ebay and get an Adaptec or Compaq or even a Dell. They all are either Adaptec or LSI chipsets and they are supported very well. I picked up a Dell/Adaptec 39160 for $35. That's 160Mhz. My Chetah's respond very nicely to it. You just have to wiat for the good deals. I picked up another lot of 5 Chetahs that are brand new for $139.00. Thats cheap!!! for 18Gig drives. You put a couple in your maching and watch them fly. They are usually 80 pin but with the right adapter($10 each) they work great. My Bp runs great on this setup. Its been up for 74 days this time. Only reason it went down before was a n extended power failure. Its Linux though.

locomo10 · Post by **locomo10** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 10:46 pm

Okay since you guys are from TN you talked me into a 39160. Too bad the're not that cheap on ebay NOW. What slot do you run your's in? slot 2?
loco

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 8:48 pm

my SCSI card is in the second to last PCI slot

my video card is in slot 1 and my first NIC is in slot 2

my second nic is in the last slot

locomo10 · Post by **locomo10** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:50 pm

Kuun,
What kind of Adaptec SCSI is it?
mo

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 9:56 pm

adaptec AHA-2940UW

locomo10 · Post by **locomo10** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 11:17 pm

Got a 39160 off of Ebay but it wasn't $35. Anyway works in slot 2 no problem.
Happy Thanksgiving

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 3:16 am

whats a 39160?

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 7:44 am

kuun wrote:whats a 39160?

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/produc ... =ASC-39160

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 5:09 pm

holy #W$%^#$%

you got that for $35!?!?!

ebay?!

omfg omfg

i was looking at something similar to that a couple weeks ago

locomo10 · Post by **locomo10** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 10:59 pm

There's a couple of 39160's on ebay rite now for $61.00.
mo

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