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Using Adaptec Wide SCSI Adaptors With Your Tape Drives

If you're having trouble getting your tape drive to work with an Adaptec AHA2940W, AHA2940UW or AHA2940U2W wide-SCSI controller, do the following:

When your system boots, wait for the Press Ctrl-A for SCSI Setup message to appear, then press Ctrl-A

When the SCSI setup menu appears, choose Configure/View Host Adapter Settings

Then choose SCSI Device Configuration

Set Initiate Sync Negotiation to NO for all SCSI IDs

Set Maximum Sync Transfer Rate to 10.0 for all IDs

Set Enable Disconnection to NO for all IDs

Press ESC and save all changes

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