Hello All, I was doing some scsi hard drive swapping between a PC and my 6500 and, later, between the 6500 and a 660AV. This was to do some fast file transfers. It seemed to work fine between the ABIT (P-III) and the 6500. The drive was one a gb scsi. Something happened along the way to complicate things. For one thing, horrors of horrors, I noticed that the drive was not connected completely to its scsi connector--which not only messed this drive up but damaged my burner as well--it was the next thing in the internal scsi chain. Previously, I had used an A-B scsi switch to share the drive, shutting down and restarting both machines during the switch over. One time, however, the ABIT hung up at the ADVANSYS SCSI program and didn't indicate the drive. The A-B setup was trashed and the drive was individually moved from machine to machine. The 6500 either hung at startup, or did successfully boot up only to not see the drive. I thought the scsi controller was damaged until I successfully used my scanner. The addresses for the CD drives are #3 for the Apple reader and #5 for the Yamaha burner. This burner has been indefinitely borrowed from the PC since I use the Mac 90 % of the time and I can easily burn ISO 9660 disks on the Mac for the PC. There seems to be no hope for the old burner. I may see if the PC can do anything with it. SCSI i.d. #4 is the scanner. Usually I've used addresses 0 through 3 for external or internal scsi hard drives. In all of this, I haven't tried #6, but have strong doubts about it. Perfectly-working hard drives have been parked or locked and made seemingly inaccessible for use with any of the machines. Termination has been used and not used. SCSI harnesses have been swapped out. Parity has been activated or otherwise. I'm thinking there is something wrong with using those lower addresses after the aforementioned mishap. The software used is Silverlining Lite (there's a higher version floating around on one of the partitions somewhere). Other software is SCSI Probe 5.1.1. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks, Tim -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> 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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
