it could of been a scsi id and or termination issue. most in box cd drives use id 3. also which device has terminator jumper hard drive or cdrom? charles lenington
Bruce Godfrey wrote: > > >In a message dated 1/15/04 7:51:26 PM, from: Doug Hinschberger > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > ><< trucked the pizza box and monitor to the local thrift shop. > > > >Then I took a vow. Never again. Your results could vary. >> This may be true > >but............ > >I've had a Performa 6116 CD for about ten or so years and for the last five I > >have had a Sonnet G3 in it along with two 128mbs sticks of ram running OS9.1 > >a Umax scanner an Iomega Jaz drive, Zip drive and a Yamaha CDRW without a > >hitch. I tried all the peripherals with a PowerMac G3 and the CDRW > >locks up the > >system. Go figure. > >RasAzul > > > > RasAzul > I notice you said you were using a CD-RW with your system. I > recently posted a question about the use of CD-RW's with te very > computer you have. Only difference between our systems is that I am > using 8.1, and you are using 9.1. > > Is your CD-RW mounted in the box on the internal SCSI cable, in place > of the OEM CD-ROM or, is it being used as an external SCSI device? > > My initial attempts to place a CD-RW "in the box" failed. The > computer wouldn't boot. I haven't wanted to deal with the unkown > amount of down-time that might be required to do a lot of > experimentation to find a solution to this problem, so I am putting > the CD-RW in an external SCSI box for now. It works fine outside the > box. I don't understand how the Mac knows where it is on the SCSI > chain like that. > > Bruce > > -- > 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > 1st PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List archive: <http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/> > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >The Think Different Store > http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> 1st PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
