Hello all

How can you tell if your Hard Drive is a SCSI or not? Is there a way to tell with out having to have your computer on.

Karmen

See if this helps:

http://kb.iu.edu/data/aeoa.html

Without having the computer on the only thing that I can think of is to open it & extract the drive from the bay. It should have an ID label.

Originally Posted by jephree

See if this helps:

http://kb.iu.edu/data/aeoa.html

Without having the computer on the only thing that I can think of is to open it & extract the drive from the bay. It should have an ID label.

Thanks for the help i will try that if i endup needing to. I guess i was having a brian mixup or something, all i really needed to do is look at the pin's to see if it was 40 or 50. but i will keep in mind what you sugested incase my brian should get nixedup again. You all have always been a good help to me Thank you so very much

Karmen

Another tell-tale sign of having SCSI devices inside your PC is that, when you boot the PC up and it starts checking out all the hardware and assigning IRQs, etc, it will have to detect the SCSI controller card. When it does that, it then normally looks through each of the SCSI IDs to see whether there is a device (e.g. a hard disk) using that ID number. Something like 95% of SCSI controller cards are made by Adaptec so you would probably see a line on the screen such as:

Adaptec AHA-2940
Detecting devices ...........
ID1 ..............
ID2 ..............
ID3 .............. Seagate SCSI 36.7Gb hard disk
ID4 ..............
ID5 ..............
ID6 ..............
ID7 .............. AHA2940 controller card

That takes at least a couple of seconds so, if you're looking for it during the boot sequence, then you can't miss it. Unless it's not there, of course, in which case you probably have an IDE hard disk.

Oh yeah, just realised the other time that you'll see it. Switch on the PC and, just after it has counted up how much RAM it has got fitted, it will look through the IDE channels for boot devices. It will display all of that on the screen, unless you've got silent booting enabled and you only see a logo or "splash screen". The hard disk will be listed as the Primary Master device if it is an IDE drive.

Hope that helps