Add external devices to extra Smart 3200 controller on a DL380 G2

[LouisV]

Hi,

We currently have a Proliant DL380 G2 running Windows Server 2003 with the internal drives connected to the onboard Smart Array 5i SCSI Controller. To the external port of this controller we have a Compaq 100 GB SDLT drive in an external enclosure connected. This works fine.

Now we want to add an external diskcabinet and a second external 100 GB SDLT drive to this system. So I added a Smart 3200 controller with two external ports to the system to connect the external diskcabinet and the extra SDLT drive each to it's own port. No matter how I connect the external devices, there is always one of them not working. Finally I even added a second Smart 3200 controller so I could connect the external diskcabinet and the extra SDLT drive each to it's own controller. Still one of the external devices won't work.

What am I doing wrong? Should I reconfigure this with smartstart? The external diskcabinet used to be connected to another server and worked fine there.
Any suggestion is welcome.
Thanks.

Louis (hardware newbie)

 

[LouisV]

It appears that this problem was caused by 2 problems:
1) SCSI-ID (all Compaq SDLT drives default have SCSI-ID 6 and if a second SCSI-controller is added it also has ID 6)
2) According to Compaq an Array Controller has difficulties with SDLT drives. You should use a simple SCSI-controller instead.