I spent hours this weekend trying to get an 8500 to properly
boot with two of those full-width, full-height 9GB Seagate drives
from compgeeks.
Either one will mount individually on either bus. The
computer won't boot at all with both drives on the same bus. With
one on the external bus (even with different i.d.), it boots but the
external one mounts on *all* scsi i.d.s -- that's right, I've got
like 7 or 8 copies of each of its two volumes mounted on the desktop!
Frightening!
This is OS9.1, with and without a G3 card.
I am well-versed in scsi i.d.s and termination -- this is not
the problem.
This machine had been running a half-gig drive and a two-gig
drive, both on the internal bus, running OSX with the original 120MHz
processor.
-Greg
(p.s.: I did lots of this testing with the case open and with cables
haning out everywhere -- that's how I "fit" the big drives...)
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