on 10/8/03 12:46 PM, Mark Koan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am posting this call for advice for a friend, so I > have not seen the machine/situation first hand, but > here goes: he hooked up an external Jaz drive to the > SCSI port of a Color Classic with a 575 board in it. > It did not work. He latter discovered that the Jaz > drive was SCSI II or "fast SCSI". > > Since then, the CC bombs out on boot with a "BUS > Error" message. But when he swaps in the original CC > motherboard, it is OK. > > Is the 575 board somehow fried, or, as I suspect, > connecting the Jaz drive kind of corrupted some sort > of bus memory, since it failed to mount. Apparently, > the Mystic recognised the drive as being on the bus, > but when he inserted the jaz disk, it didn't show up > on the desktop, and afterwards this problem of bus > error emerged. > > He has on my advice taken out the motherbaord, removed > the pram, and let the whole thing sit for a couple > days. If the problem persists, what to do? Is it > really so dangerous to connect a SCSI II device to a > color classic? I just assumed it would run at the > lower speed.
He had to install a Jaz extension, right? This may be giving the Mystic a tummy ache. Boot the Mystic with the shift key held down until the desktop appears and remove any Jaz-related extensions and see what happens. Jeff -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.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]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
