scsi dlt tape drive cannot be seen! help!

[valicon]

Hi all,

I have a Quantum DLT 4000 and I have tried to install it on a Dell Optiplex gx260, a Precision 220 and even a few Dell 530's. I have used different scsi cards and cables and I cannot get the pc to see the drive. The pc sees the scsi card but it does not see the attached device. I know the devive works as I had it working on my workstation as a test to ensure it works. I have tried every thing I know of! The scsi cards are adaptec and I looked at their site and did not get anywhere. I tried to update the bios, but the adaptec bios program states that if the update utility may not work if the card is oem, and all these cards came out of older dells. The cards that I am using are:

AHA-2910C

AHA-2930CU

AHA-2940UW Dual

The O/S is XP Pro.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Anyone ever see this before? Thanks!

Is there something in the pc bios I am missing?

 

[edfair]

Suggest the Adaptec site for instructions on getting into the SCSI bios so you can do a bus scan.
Once there you can change the DLT ID until it is seen on the scan.
Think your best bet is the 2940.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[valicon]

Yep I have tried that and still nothing! I have never seen this before! I have other DLT 4000 running on our dells but this one refusing to work on any other machine than mine. I have even matched the settings from my scsi card to that of the other and still nothing. Any other suggestions, I would appreciate it..