Sounds like you have a bad cable.
Let me cut through this ... you plug the 29 pin side directly into your
powerbook and the 25 pin side into your Syquest drive. Turn power on to both
machines and your powerbook will not recognize the Syquest drive. Is that about
it?
O.K., your Syquest has auto term sensing. It may not be functioning correctly.
The only way to check is to put an active terminator on the open pass through
port of the Syquest drive to see if that solves the problem.
However, just tell the Powerbookguy that you are having problems, have him send
you a new cable and a terminator. If it works, send back the old cable & term.
If not, try the terminator. If that works, send back a cable. If not, then my
guess is your problem is with the Syquest drive itself. There is no reason the
direct configuration shouldn't work otherwise.
Andrew Carlson wrote:
> Just got a new hdi29/db25 cable from the powerbookguy so I could connect
> directly to my Syquest ezflyer 230. I have been using a hdi29/50 pin to an
> external LaCie 24x CD and then a 50/25 cable to the Syquest, no problemo but
> don't want to have to carry around the CD player to have access to my
> ezflyer cartridges. The problem is that the new cable will not recognize the
> drive. I've tried everything I can think of, rebuilding desktop, zapping
> p-ram, Norton says OK, Disk First Aid says OK but the Silverlining Lite
> control panel reports unknown device (Scsi ID 4 is the default) and when I
> put in a cartridge it asks if I want to erase it, "possibly damaged". (I
> don't have any blank disks or I would have tried that to see what happens.)
> The Syquest has automatic termination sensing. If I put the cd after the
> syquest it will not load any disks. The cd has a termination switch which I
> set to on when at the end of the chain. (Normally set to off in my original
> setup and scsi ID set to 5.) I tried setting the syquest ID to 6 and the
> control panel didn't show anything. Silverling also crashes.
>
> When I hook everything back up to the original configuration without the new
> cable it all works perfectly.
>
> Is there an issue with hdi29/db25 cables or did I get a dud? Anyone have
> similar setups? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
>
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