Hi Janet, SCSI termination is done to stop the SCSI signals from bouncing (reflecting) around, inside the loooong SCSI cables. The built-in SCSI bus in your Mac is terminated at one end, on the mother board. If you have nothing plugged into it, then there is no need for a 2nd termination - IOW, you DO NOT need to put an external terminator on the SCSI port on the back of your machine. When you plug a ZIP drive in, tho, you're adding a cable for the signals to bounce in - so turn on the ZIP drives termination (it's a switch on the back of the drive).
IDE is a different type of bus. It does not require termination. It does, however, require that a proper master-slave setup be done in the drives. As to your internal hard drive not showing up on your desktop... Your mac is booting from that drive? If so, it must be there somewhere! Try rebuilding your desktop; maybe the drive's icon has been hozed. Another possibility is that you've accidentally moved the icon off-screen; click on the desktop (not in a window) then try Clean Up or Arrange, from the Finder's View menu. HTH, - Dan. At 04:50 AM -0800 12/30/2002, flawed jai wrote: >i posted a question related to this and got no answers so I'm reposting >it a different way: >the hard drive in my 6360 doesnt want to show up onscreen when i boot >up. It's in there, I saw it. But in thinking it over, it occurred to me >that my brother in law ran this machine with a scsi zip drive attached >out the back on the SCSI port, which I am sure is terminated. I haven't >attached it yet, and it occurred to me that since the hard drive of the >6360 is an IDE, that perhaps my problem is in the absence of termination >when the zip drive isn't attached. >obviously the easy test is to attch the zip drive and see if the hard >drive shows up afterwards. >but supposing it works, and then i decide I don't want to use the ZIp >drive? >do i need to buy a DB25 terminator to put on the SCSI port on the back >of the machine, to keep my hard drive in the loop? and what kind of >terminator do i want? > >janet -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - South Jersey, USA, Earth <http://cronus.spaceports.com/~darmok> - Billions of people walking around - like Happy Meals with legs. -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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 Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
