Marshall Fortescue wrote:

> The External HD is still not showing up in the
> device manager.  It is an old (old by computer standards) MicroTek 500M
> external drive.  I am using an adaptec SCSI card.  (I'm writing from work so
> I don't have all the details).  The external drive is terminated.  The SCSI
> ID is 4 or 5.  The terminator was NOT from the manufacturer, but one I
> picked up locally.  I have yet to change the cables too.

So did you check the terminator (old drive may need different one, I don't know
your drive at all, someone else may help here)?
Is the drive formatted/partitioned? if you run fdisk, can you see the drive?
worth to try.

Jun Qian

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