jeremy blanton wrote: > Well I've removed the internal old Seagate 1 gb drive from > the chain. The > old drive was a full height 50 pin. I didn�t see a > terminator on the end of > the drive. I did see a SCSI ID switch but would that would > terminate the > drive? According to SCSIProbe, I've got the new Western > Digital drive on BUS > 0, ID 0, the CD drive on ID 3, and the CPU on ID 7. Doesn�t the CPU
The CPU is a kind of virtual device as the host. You want termination on both ends of the cable, as well as termination power, which the motherboard should provide (both the first termination and the power). > terminate automatically? I could get a terminator from radio That�s essentially what I did. I purchased a new 68 pin terminator and plugged it directly into the SCSI cable, on the last connector. The thing that is strange for me was that the 2 4 Gb Seagates were working fine until I put the Western Digital 9.1's in the chain. It was almost like the WD's needed a better termiantion or something, which doesn't make much sense to me (I mean, its terminated or its not, right? Evidently not!). I can't get the Seagates to work correctly without the terminator now either. I never removed the termination on the one drive. I don't get it. Logic is failing me. Where's Spock when I need him? If I had the cash, I'd just buy an IDE card and put one of those in. People can say what they will about PC's, but its never taken me 4 days to get hard disks working in one... (and I have built several dozen!). Even when using SCSI: I have a 29160 in my server that has a tape drive and 4 hard disks attached, and they all came up and worked first try when I did it last year. Why do IDE cards cost $100 for the Mac, when I can buy a PC one for $20? I don't get it. Ok, I'll get off my soapbox now. > shack but > would I install it on the pin adaptor or the drive? I don�t > mess with sCSI > too much and I'm seriously considering just buying a B&W G3 > with ATA and not > worrying about SCSI ever again! Man do I hear that. SCSI used to be so simple, then they added performance abilities with all these other fancy connectors (never using the same one twice, for good reason, but never the less...). --> Russ -- 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
