Hello Declan, Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 2:44:20 AM, you wrote:
DM> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:29:19AM -0800, Uwe Zimmermann enlightened us DM> thusly >> DM> Put a 'scope on the bus and ckeck the logic levels. I'll bet they >> are DM> borderline fail somewhere, and that extra drive is acting as a >> pullup DM> or pull down, and making things borderline pass. >> >> But an internal IDE harddisk does not sit on the same bus as an >> external SCSI device?!?! DM> OOOPS! Any Mac I opened had scsi internally. Are you sure it's ide DM> internally? even Apple had to acknowledge that modern IDE drives are much cheaper and as fast as SCSI drives. In almost all PowerPCs are sitting IDE drives nowadays... But as opposed to common PCs all Apples still come with a SCSI interface as standard equipment. Uwe. -- Author: Uwe Zimmermann INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Hosting, San Diego, California -- http://www.fatcity.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
