G'day Mark,

Do you hear the drive spin-up when you power-up?
Do you see it flash a drive-access when you power-up?
Did you see it working at the Mac shop?

If they had it working and you get home and it isn't, then yeah, my
first reaction is that the drive doesn't have the terminator resistors
enabled (or maybe they don't exist, if the drive came from a RAID
array). 

They probably had it on a SCSI cable that chained it into an existing 
system. They can then copy a system on and select it as an alternate
Boot device and all is well. Which is fine - until you try to boot 
standalone and it's no longer terminated.

>From 12,000 miles away, my diagnosis is:
  A) get the drive onto a cable that has its own terminator, or
  B) get the drive itself configured to terminate the bus.

If the above turns out to be true, I think it would be fair to say
that a red face might be warranted from the guy who installed it 
and handed it back to a customer without a standalone test :-)

Luke

-----Original Message-----
From: Compact Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Beadle Mark
Sent: Sunday, 25 April 2004 11:47 AM
To: Compact Macs
Subject: Re: [Re: classic II hard drive not recognized]

Luke,

Thanks for the quick reply. I took the classic II to a mac repair shop
to have
the drive installed. They claimed that they had it working and installed
7.1
on it. However, as soon as I got it home and powered it up.... all I got
was
the floppy with flashing "?." I tried the disk tools and I tried to
install
system 7 on it and in both cases the message was no scsi device
recognized.
I'll try to call the tech shop back, but they will not open again until
Monday. I also wanted to try to get informed about the problem and
possible
solutions myself. Thanks.

Mark Beadle


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