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@Cosmos
I beleive you are having a problem with termination my friend, you may need to enfore SE on the drive.
I have to admit I have had a lot of problems with Compaq and SCSI hard disks - dont get me wrong, where there working they are some of the best in the land... just getting up and running it a pain in mule =)
I found that I had to use a different adapter to the one you have there for my CSMk2 to see the drive (and the GVP ISFS2) its a tall adapter that has both 80SCA / 68 and 50 pin connectors.
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@cosmos
The Jumper you need to force SE is actually on the hard drive - you should find this one the underneath of the disk drive or at the front
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As per Zetr0's saying.
Photos from my ST31840LW LVD U3W drive.
@Cosmos
EDIT: If your Compaq drive is a rebranded Seagate one (as it looks like) it might well follow the same conventions.
So if there's a similar jumper block on the drive's PCB and the FE indication is for the front-most jumper, it could well be the same thing.
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Mechanical problem? The clac-clac itself isn't a reason to worry but if the motor dies out afterwards...
No surprise it's not detected therefore.
Test it on a different system, I always have a SCSI adapter on my PC for that (<rant> even bought an Adaptec 29160N as stupid nForce4 had to ditch 5V PCI support!</rant>).
Do you have a Terminator before CSmkIII?
You need to have:
Terminator --- Cyberstorm --- SCSI Hard Disk --- Terminator/or terminator jumper on HD
Also I had some issues with LVD device on the 68pin chain.
For example I have a spare ACard I got from an amiga user some years ago.
Sadly it's not a common 7220UW but an LVD 7726H bridge. I see the IDE device JUST fine in HDToolBox but despite making the partitions and drive saves the RDB and schema... I can't see the drives to format them!!!
An LVD drive will need the upper pins over 68 terminating. Even if you terminate both ends of the 68pin cable, the adapter you have is not adequate & forcing Single Ended will not work either.