Beige w/Atto & Termination

[MikeRF/A2]

I installed an ATTO UL2D SCSI card in my beige 266  rev 1.  I booted 
into 9.2.2 and updated the card firmware to 1.64 from the original 
Apple firmware. (Can only do this from 9). I also installed ATTO 
Express Tools on the original 4 GB ATA drive which was able to see 
the card.  Upon restart and thereafter I cannot boot into 9.2.2, the 
system hangs at the happy mac. If I pull the ATTO card it boots. Is 
this a normal result of the update from Apple's 1.43 to ATTO's 1.64 
firmware?

I can boot into 10.2.8 and the card is recognized by the crappy 
profiler that, for some reason, doesn't display  SCSI ID numbers and 
other important info.  (and also tells me there is no USB device when 
there actually is).  The Seagate Cheetah LVD/SE ST118202LC drive 
attached to the ATTO card is not seen.

The UL2D card is supposed to provide automatic termination at that 
end and my  short 68 pin cable has a terminator at the other end with 
the drive located in the middle. The manual states the drive does not 
furnish termination power. Seagate says to use an "active negation" 
terminator. Is this overkill?  Checked prices and they cost more than 
the card!  The terminator that came with the eBay purchased cable 
looks cheap and light duty (I was told it was passive) but it says 
"Ultra 160M Terminator LVD+SE ACT NEG+HVD ISO" on it. Looks nothing 
like other active negation terminators. Any  termination suggestions 
here?

To complicate matters there is a SCA  80 pin to 68 (or 50) adapter  ( 
no termination abilities) on the drive with jumpers that duplicate 
what is on the drive itself. Not sure whether to jumper one, the 
other or both. Since it is it's own bus I left the new drive set at 
ID 0. The card is supposed to be at 7, but since 10.2.8 profiler 
doesn't give that info....? I put a jumper on the SCA adapter at ID 
3, still no drive.

I'm all ears (eyes?) for anyone's input.
Thanks-  Mike
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