This is an offshoot from the thread I previously started about setting
up SCSI HD in B/W.
I found a reference to a freeware control panel for OS 9, I think in a
post on an Apple tech forum. This control panel is called Mt.
Everything and is supposed to be the last word in SCSI handling under
OS9. So I downloaded and tried it out while booted into OS 9. What it
displays is a list of the SCSI ID's, 1-15, and what is present at each
one. You can select an item and open a pop-up window with information
about it. What I see is interesting. The list is empty except for ID
7. At 7 you see the following:
BUS: Apple Virtual Bus
0 Apple Computer Motherboard
1 ATTO PCI card
2 ATTO PCI card
Getting further information on each of these items shows that the SCSI
ID of the Bus Controller in each case is 7.
From the Mt. Everything readme:
"On a Blue & White PowerMac G3 and more recent models you'll end up in
both an empty
Motherboard bus ID 0 and an empty Virtual Bus. This is not an error in
Mt. Everything:
Current Mac OS software "fakes" an onboard SCSI bus (probably for
compatibility reasons)
even if there is no hardware for an onboard bus. "
Might it be that this is just too many things all claiming to be at ID 7?
Broos
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