Re: SCSI clarification for Glenn

[Glenn Schunemann]

You do indeed have a SCSI hard drive (running off the SCSI PCI card). 
With it gone, the machine will not boot (unless you put a bootable CD 
in the optical drive.

The machine has a ATA/IDE bus on the board. If you have and IDE drive 
you can use that.

On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 10:04 PM, james lindley wrote:

I'm not sure whether it's an SCSI or ATA drive.
Yes, it's the only  HD in the system. It IS an
SCSI card. I connected external SCSI hard drives
to it.  The ports on the ribbon are black clamps
the width of the ribbon with a slot that has two
rows of pins. There are four such clamps on the
ribbon, with the hd attached at the second and
the card at number four. The issue is removing
the card in hopes of solving some strange
behavior.  Here's my original post:
I'd like to remove my ATI 2940 SCSI card, but
taking it out of it's slot or detaching the
SCSI ribbon from it (it's at the end of the
ribbon) leaves my G4 unable to find the hard
drive. I've tried making the last "port" that
the card uses the port for the hd, but that
doesn't >work. Either I need some kind of
terminating device for the SCSI ribbon, or it's
actually an ATA  ribbon (Apple Profiler
indicates that my internal hd is SCSI, but why
would an SCSI card be needed if it's a SCSI
ribbon?) Very confusing.


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