On 28 Jul 98 at 5:12, Jonathan Navarro wrote:

>  1.Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm planning to put the cd-writer and the
>    cd-rom drive in the 50 pin SCSI-2 chain, terminated by the
>    cd-writer. The SCSI-3 chain terminated by the hard disk, can I have
>    unused connectors between the motherboard and the last SCSI device?
>    No terminator are needed, it can be done via jumpers.

  Yes, unused connectors are no problem.

>  2.Is that true that I have to physically low-level format the
>    SCSI hard disk in the BIOS?, then in the DOS define the partition
>    and format it again?  Maybe someone can tell me the typical
>    procedure to install a SCSI system.

  Although in theory SCSI drives should come already low-level
formatted, we've occasionally had problems with them as delivered,
and so have adopted an initial low-level format as SOP (Standard
Operating Procedure).
  When your machine boots, you'll see a banner from the Adaptec SCSI
BIOS, offering your the opportunity to press Ctrl-A to enter a
utility suite included in the ROM.  There are two basic
subcategories: controller configuration and device utilities.  One of
the device utilities will low-level format an attached SCSI drive.
  [There are a whole lot of other settings in here, and you may be
able to safely ignore most of them.]

>  3.Any other help in mounting the Pentium II

  Make sure that the locking tabs at each end of the CPU are engaged,
and you should be fine.  The whole assembly is keyed beyond reason,
so there's virtually no way you can get it wrong.

David G